Greetings from paradise
The weather here just seems to be getting better each day with light winds and warm sunshine. After the usual lazy breakfast Sunday was taken up by a nice long walk of about 5 km to the boat harbour and back and another reading session under the awning before a few drinkies with the neighbours. Just another fantastic day in this great location. Next day we booked a trip on a glass bottom boat for a 2 hour cruise and snorkel of the reef. You sit down stairs facing outwards looking through large windows that are on a 45 deg. angle with a magnification of about 75%. It looks like you are going to crash into the coral and the fish like to come right up to the windows and look in at you. Just amazing. About a k/m off shore they stop at a fish hot spot and let you snorkel for a hour with all gear supplied. Steph was a bit hesitant about jumping off the boat but hey she geared up and jumped in with everyone else and just loved it. We both really enjoyed swimming with many types of those friendly colourful fish and some were quite large before another drive around the best spots in the bay. The water was warm when you jumped in warmer than the shore. Fantastic value for $60 in this tropical paradise.
Another enjoyable night was had with the neighbours who invited us to join them next morning on a 40k/m drive to a very popular remote seaside freedom camping location that you need 4wd to get to. The rough camp had awesome beach spots but with no facilities not even drinking water, only for the very keen and there were lots of them.We were able to extend our stay again so it looks like 10 nights in this amazing place. Bye for now.