When rocks meet sand you have fish for dinner – yay!

Last night we dined on fresh caught Flathead, as all people who fish regularly know, differences in the ocean floor and coastline act like a beacon for fish to congregate, little fish mean bigger fish, and bigger fish mean full tummies for hungry paddlers. When we paddled into our piece of paradise last night through schools of silver darting fish I was quietly confident. This morning, well fed and content and after surviving waves of mozzie bombardments and the relentless attack of a cavalry of green ants that somehow found there way into my tent we are contemplating our short paddle from Cape Palmerston to a small unnamed beach 30 kilometres short of Mackay. On the way we will paddle through the inside of Glendower point and Taffy Island, from here they look like they will be stunning. For those of you who have been following our tracker you will have seen that at times we have done a lot of point to point crossings without entering bays, we do this so we get further up the coast quickly ( “cutting the corner”/ or “threading the needle”when paddling through rocky reefs we call it), when we do it we are always left with a sense of loss at having paddled past yet another beautiful place without calling in to see it – you could spend a lifetime exploring this section of coast without ever stopping in the same place twice, it has an infinant potential for adventurers, explorers and lovers of the natural world. Guess what, the people here are awesome too! DT