Fly/drive/stay deal – the wet season is the best time for wildlife
You can Fly into Cape York and spend some time exploring. There is heaps to see in just one area. Explore the Iron Range National Park, Chili Beach and Lockhart River area from Portland Roads. To encourage people to visit Portland Roads Beach Shack during the wet season, we have negotiated deals with Skytrans and [...]
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Ophichthus cephalozona, a photo by Ben Naden on Flickr. Here is a better photo of our sea creature, taken on North Sulawesi, Indonesia
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When we first got here and walked at low tide we spotted one of these strange creatures, when I asked around no one had seen anything like it, a sea snake with a frilled neck sounded pretty unlikely. Nothing came up on google and I had no picture to post on the forums. We just [...]
Continue Reading →Crabbing – Sunday 24th Oct 2010
Alan and I decided to take the dory out for a crabbing and fishing trip. We had the carcase of a Coral Trout Alan had caught a few days previously to use for bait. As we started out, it commenced raining, then pouring, then really storming so hard the rain was hurting my eyes and I [...]
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