28th May 2021

I lay awake during the night looking out at the twinkling stars and the fluffy white clouds thinking I am so glad the weather man got it wrong this time, it was supposed to be heavy rain and thunderstorms.

When we finally woke a gentle breeze was blowing and the sky was a beautiful azure.

The early morning coffee in bed got us planning the day, first walk over the hill to check the tide, still very high.

Breakfast next then walk over a bigger dune to another beach on the other side, the beach is much nicer for swimming or beach fishing, quite a walk though.

On the way back we passed the boat launch area, some of the regular campers having been making weirs to try and stop the water from going  around their camps and also dams to try and stop the tide coming in, what it has caused stinks as the water and weed that has come in can't get back out it is stagnating and starting to stink bad.

What we can't understand is why the same people go into that area year after year to camp when they know the tides can come in, there is so much other space.

We walked along the beach towards our camp and stopped to talk to some other campers, while we were there we saw two dugong feeding no more than twenty yards out in front of us.

Yesterday while Merv was wading fishing a turtle came right up to the front of him, we saw several today.

The afternoon was so calm and sunny we went to the beach with the snorkels for a swim, when the swim was finished Merv came back to camp to get a chair, book and throw net.

Merv had one good throw and got enough bait for a week, we were planning on going to the beach tonight around ten to fish but it looks like the storm is rolling in.