A day of firsts

The day starts with an adventure even before coffee! Rowan told me he had taken the drone through an arch, he thought he was recording but he wasn’t. I asked if he would do it again, he agreed. Well of course he lost signal and the drone tried to come back to base (which we set it to rise 50m and come back) but hit its noggin in the arch. So we ended up on a near hour walk to retrieve it haha. It was actually great fun. It turns out it is not an arch it is just the way the rocks are laid that it looked like one. I did get ants in my pants (literally) and the nasty buggers bite!

When we got back we had our coffee and breakfast. All fuled up but we had to wait till 8.30am for the tide to be high enough. On the boat we head further into the harbour towards Minjau. We see two crocs on the way. That is the first time I have seen crocs in the wild.

We arrive at our destination and make a beeline to the rock art. It took about an hour to get there, it was incredibly hot. I was thankful to be in the cave and in the shade by the time we got there. There was just no shelter from the heat.

On the way into the cave we got mobbed by green ants, which bite. I swear everything bites in Australia. In the cave we’re some interesting images. Tubs found the spearhead which can’t be from the people around here because they never knapped their spears they just grinded them.

Then we headed off back in the direction we came. There were two Brolga birds flying, we weren’t fast enough to capture them on film. We got to have a swim on the way back which was well received. It was glorious.

We got back to the boat and had lunch. On the way back we saw two more crocs and Rowan got some good footage with the drone. It was risky landing the drone on a moving boat but he managed.

Once back, we didn’t do anything. To be honest we were hoping a more packed itinerary. In the afternoons we have filled them in with doing stuff we can but I was hoping we would have a full itinerary. However I am glad I am not exhausted.

Jan didn’t come with us on our walk today, she went fishing with two new comers. With the scraps from the fish they caught we got to feed the tawny nurse reef sharks.

We had a lovely Moroccan style dinner with the fresh fingermark fish they caught earlier.

We just chilled by the fire. As we got up to go to bed I spotted a hermit crab and then another and then another. They had such a variety of different shells it was awesome to see. Sorry I was too busy experiencing and forgot to take a photo. Then as we walked Jan back to her hut I walked past a snake. Jan yelled out there is a snake. I came back to have a look. It was a small brown snake, I kept my distance and it was neat to finally see a snake in the wild. Talk about a day of new sightings.