6 August 2019
After a calm night, the wind picked up a bit and it wasn’t an overly fast paced morning. Dad and I headed down to the beach fishing mid morning, and gave up by lunch. We got a couple of small bites, and fed a few fish some bait. After lunch, it was high tide so Dad, Bill and I drove down to the Oyster Stacks to go snorkelling. It was pretty choppy and windy, but we had limited time and I was determined to snorkel this location. Because the reef is so shallow there, the tide has to be above 1.2 m, and today was our only day that the tide was going to be high enough. We soon forgot about the conditions when we got in the water. Just knee deep in water and there was the most amazing diversity of fish. It was extradionary to see them so close to the beach. We ventured out a bit further and I don’t know what 99% of the fish were, but there were big ones, little ones and some of them so colourful. There were schools of silver fish, yellow fish and black fish and none of them could care less that we were snorkelling above them. It was really amazing. After completing the precarious job of hauling ourselves back out of the water over the rocky shore, we headed back to camp for showers (thank goodness for Dad’s excellent camp shower. I hate the feel of dried salt on my skin), beers and chips. The wind calmed down a bit in the arvo, and we could watch the sunset from the top of the adjacent sand dune.
The coastline next to our camp.
Travelling the Big Island 