This weekend we were lucky enough to hitch a five minute dinghy ride from our island to a more remote and uninhabited one. The beaches look like a war zone due to the Green Turtle nesting season over the past 4 months. What a mess!
We jumped off the boat and went for a bit of an adventure. I had just finished explaining to our new buddy Ben about the Goannas and huge Pythons on this island when, sure enough, there was a massive python beginning to devour a Goanna! I had never seen this before and Ben surely hadn't! I still find it hard to believe how these snakes can eat an animal almost twice their size.
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| Snake vs Goanna |
This time of year the baby turtles are hatching all over the place, so we went for a bit of a mission to find a nest. It wasn't long until we found the little darlings making their way out of the soft sand and down to the beach.
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| Hayley and her little friends |
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| Helping them with their long journey |
After helping the babies with the beginning of their journey we jumped back into the dinghy for some epic fishing.
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| Our view of the islands while fishing |
The fishing out here is incredible due to NO commercial fisheries and almost no ocean traffic whatsoever, it is a truly untouched part of the world. We tried a few different reefs in the area and caught an uncountable amount of fish. Mackerel, Coral Trout, Coral Cod of all kinds, Snapper, Red Bass and MASSIVE Giant Trevally, just to name a few. The best fishing experience of my life by a long way. We kept a Mackerel and two Coral Trout and the rest went to friends and families on our island.
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| Mackerel and two Coral Trout |
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| Me with a Mackarel |
It's days like this that really make me appreciate where I live. It may be extremely remote, and there are huge disadvantages to that, but I truly do live in one of the most beautiful and natural places on our planet, I am grateful.
All images in this post were captured with the Apple iPhone 4s
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