Mandu Mandu Gorge

Thursday 23rd
It wasn't as windy so we decided to head to Mandu Mandu Gorge in the morning.

There was no water and we walked along the river bed on very white smooth rocks which was a colour contrast to the quite often red walls of the gorge. We also saw some black footed rock wallabies which were very clever at jumping along these steep gorge walls.

This is our half way stop as we climb up to walk back along the top of the gorge.
After lunch we headed back to Turquoise Bay for our last swim there.This time there was even more spotted dart fish!

You can only just see a heap of them swimming down near the sand next to Zane. They kept looking at us just in case we had some food for them.

As I followed this spangled emperor I felt something touch my feet and turned around and there were a group of spotted dart fish following me. They all stopped and looked at me then as I swam away they followed me. It was funny.

Manning spent a lot of time looking at these fish.

A school of fish that just swam by.

A couple of wrasse eating.

Another different wrasse I think. Tim, Kimberly, Ethan and Josiah went out for the last time before we had to go and they saw a huge cod fish which would feed us for a week. They think it was about 1.3m long and very deep. The most exciting thing though was the white tip reef shark that swam past them, had a look at them, and then swam off. They said it was at least 1.5m long. Everyone kept calm but the whole beach heard about it when they walked out of the water! They had a lot to tell us.