After Masthead Island, we decide coral cays without a lagoon are not the most comfortable anchorages and that instead of visiting another cay, we should head back to the mainland, to renowned Yellow Patch, on the Tropic of Capricorn. It is 1/8/15 when we get there, having enjoyed a rollicking sail under Big Red, our…
Easter Reef Egrets (Egretta sacra) have been a feature of our cruise around coral cays of the Capricornia coast these last two weeks. We had never seen them before and we thought it fitting to make these beautiful and secretive waterbirds the focus of our #24 Bird Photography Challenge.
Our third coral cay on this trip, Masthead Island, offers a different seascape again. A long strip of Pisonia forest with a thin beach of crushed coral all around and reef exposed at low tide, you can only access the island with ease at high tide. At low tide the fringing reef makes it impossible…
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