Monday, September 8, 2008

Day 63-64 Yardie Homestead/ Cape Range

Stephen has yet again managed to do wanders with his camera. This postcard perfect shot should be enlarged to get the best effect. (Double click and it will do this). This shot is of an area just beside the Visitors centre at the Cape Range National Park. It has the same feeling as that of the day...just walk right in.
Yardie Gorge, on Yardie Creek, was the only gorge that we have seen that was absolutely teeming with fish... Alys wanted to get the rod out there and then. We all admitted that we are all Gorged out, so I think that's the last one for a while.
South Mandu Beach was where we went for our second snorkeling experience. The first was at Turquoise Bay, yesterday, and Stephen and I saw a Black Tipped Reef Shark (all I heard was the "Oh Sh t", through the snorkel). It was about 4 ft long and cruised passed about 6 ft away. The colours and varieties of the fish were staggering. Here at South Mandu Beach we saw dead coral, before getting out to the serious stuff, only meters off the beach. The tide was out so we swam up and out to the live reef and then just drifted down with the current. If you put your hand down you would have touched the reef and the fish. Sensational!!!!!!!

The lone fisherman, turns out to be a German pastry chef, named Riener, who was delighted to be offered copies of the said photos.

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