Coral Coast 2016

It is 9:00 on Saturday morning I sit up in bed and reach for my book [Harry Potter]I read for about half an hour and then I hear the usual morning wake up call, witch is wally wining I realise that I am on dog duty for this week so I reluctantly get out of bed and deal with him. After my breakfast I start to try and get dad out of bed because
he deals with the launching the dinghy, it takes another half an hour before he is satisfied and ready to leave.

This particular beach is special. It has a sky net and a swing. We clamber up the rickety vertical stick ladder. The sticks are roughly half a metre apart [very hard to climb]. We climb down the ladder only to find our dog and he has just won the all time most prickle contest. His fur now consisted of about 8 prickly pom-pom sized balls and every time he tried to get one out it got stuck to the side of his face. So Wally is rolling around in the mud and the sand trying to get the prickles out of his fur and that just made them more entangled [almost impossible to get out] but somehow we got them all out.

The next day we went for a bush walk. We thought that we would not need shoes but we were completely wrong. I was not sure what was worse the tiny rocks or the big sharp ones. It was a relief to find a large rock to stand on. We made painfully slow progress. I saw a millipede that had been hollowed out by ants and it had no legs. I assume that the ants took them too. The highlight of the trip was the tigers - hang on let me clarify - tiger butterflies. They were feeding on the spectacularly long grass tree flowers and the fluro bottomed dragonfly were a nice little surprise also.

While we were looking for interesting shells, I spotted a caterpillar crawling across the ground. It crawled up a root that was sticking out of the ground. It went up to the top and then went down to the middle of the root and started making a chrysalis!
Don't get too excited, it is not as amazing as you would think - it took a very long time. I wonder what it will look like.........

On the last day at Great Keppel Island, we sailed up around to the eastly point and decided to go for a snorkel. We got all kitted up and when we got into the water it was as murky as the raw sugar that we dissolved in science [we could not see a thing]. After we got out of the water, a man on a Jetski came along and helpfully told us that he had seen a tiger shark in that area that morning. He thought it was attracted by the huge school of bait fish that we could see in the shallows.