Yardie Creek Day 3

Today I woke up and lay in bed reading till 10:00 AM. When I finally got up I made me some breakfast. Then we went snorkelling. First we drove to Turquoise Bay where we did some drift snorkelling. The current was pretty strong and my feet were soon hurting from swimming against the current. I decided to stay where I could reach the shore easily if my feet hurt again. At one point my feet were hurting so badly that I couldn't even move my flippers.

In the shallows there were schools of Common Darts feeding on the tiny particles that were stirred up by people walking. It was quite amusing to watch all these fish crowd around your feet hoping that you'll take another step and stir up more sand. I just sort of jogged on the spot and stirred up some sand. All the Common Dart were milling around my feet gulping down all the little crabs and whatnots that were hiding in the sand. I saw also that there were 2 small, 30 cm Trevalley being very greedy and gulping down the best bits first. After a few hours Mum told us to get out of the water. When we arrived at the car we all piled in and drove to Milyering Visitor Centre. Mum went and bought some lunch.

She bought some Sausage Rolls, a Beef Pie and a Cornish Pastie. After a quick but surprisingly good lunch we got our snorkelling stuff. We walked down to the beach and found the reef. Then we put on our flippers and snorkelled out to the reef. There were lots of Parrot Fish snapping off the coral and being a nuisance. All these little fish were darting around the coral. I saw a lot of little Zebra Fish and some Moon Wrasses. Then my feet started hurting again and I had to swim into the shallow sand flats. This by no means meant I was missing out on anything.

I saw about 30 Garfish and what looked like a Spangled Emperor. Then I just swam up and down the beach looking for shells and other interesting bits and pieces. After 2 hours Mum said that we had better get going. When we arrived back at the car we drove back to the caravan. By the time we arrived at the caravan it was nearly 5:00 PM. We packed up the caravan and then had dinner. After dinner we watched the sunset. Then we packed up the mat out the front of the caravan and went inside. After that we had dessert. For dessert we had ice-cream and chocolate. Then I wrote the blog and went to bed.

Oggi siamo andati snorkeling.

E' stato divertente.

Ho visto un sacco di pesci.