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Image:Fish.

Image:Private bay.

Image: Corel.

Image: Shell.

Image: Turtle.

Sunday 12 July

We can now understand why no-one wants to join us as crew. Uninhabited
islands, beautiful coral and shells scatter the beaches, Turtles swim metres
away from the boat, schools of fish get in the way while swimming and
colourful sunsets. Who would want to spend weeks doing this??

The past couple of days we have been ashore and checked out a couple of the
beaches here on Goldsmith Island. Had a couple of swims and just chilled
out. Today our bay got very crowded as we had three motor boats from the
mainland call in over the course of the day, which meant we only had half
the beach to ourselves. Whilst on the beach we had a chat to a couple from
Mackay who had come out for the day with a couple of their grandkids who as
they were beachcombing the island, didn't really mind there was no reception
for their mobile phones! There is a small campsite on this beach and a
composting toilet, which even here there is a sign re Covid-19 warning to
keep social distancing.

Keeping our perfect fishing record intact, we headed out this afternoon for
a couple of hours for a spot of fishing. We did so enjoy feeding the fish
but do wish sometimes something would jump on the line and stay there!
Needless to say it was a good job we got some roo steaks out of the freezer
for tea! This evening when checking the mooring a turtle surfaced only
metres from the boat, lifting his head and giving us a couple of looks
before he dived down deep again.

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