About August1/08/2005 This month’s entries are or…

About August
1/08/2005
This month’s entries are ordered backward, so that they are easier to read from the top, as they are a rough kind of journal, and not a web log as such. This means the dates at the top and bottom of each entry is incorrect, the correct dates are at the beginning of each [...]

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Wellington – Cairns

6/08/2005
Not a pleasant day – up at 3.20am, to catch 6.00am flight to Sydney; from there, to catch another flight to Cairns. Since I have a really bad cold at present I really didn’t enjoy any of this.
Checked into our hotel, then went for a walk around Cairns. The Holiday Inn is (surprise!) a really [...]

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Cairns – Torres Strait

7/08/2005
Fine and sunny in Cairns, went out early and had breakfast at a place on the esplanade, what a pleasant climate – about 20C, with a very light breeze.

Two hour flight to Horn Island, then a very expensive bus and ferry ride across to Thursday Island. This is like a real frontier town – very [...]

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Thursday Island

8/08/2005
Got up for a quick walk around the eastern end of Thursday Island, which took a little over an hour. TI is quite built up, although housing is low density, just about the whole island has been built on.
The eastern end has a small area of mangroves, with fruit bats roosting. Otherwise, wildlife doesn’t seem [...]

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Seisia

9/08/2005
Arrived at Seisia – what a superb location, campsite complete with beach shelter, right on the beachfront overlooking the Torres Strait islands, and with endless sandy beaches in both directions as far as we can see.
Had to get up early (5.20am) to catch the 6.30 ferry, which was a great idea as there were only [...]

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Oops!

10/08/2005
Busy day today, up early to leave camp at 8.00am, drove past several townships to meet Phil and the boat near Jardine River.
Quick trip past the rivermouth, we left the boat near several turtle tracks, and walked along the beach. What a huge amount of rubbish – ropes, nets and fish crates by the truckload. [...]

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Sunrise

11/08/2005
Woke early to see another spectacular sunrise, quite cold to start with at 19 degrees.
Four “wild” horses walked through the camp before breakfast, the neighbours were silly enough to feed them, and the guy next door was stupid enough to walk behind one of the horses, which tried to kick him but missed.
Slight problem with [...]

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Out and About

12/08/2005
Cold again this morning, 19 degrees, but soon warmed up to 37-38 degrees by afternoon, huge torrential downpour cooled things down considerably.
Drove out to the tackle shop to book tickets, only to be told the 7 day price no longer applied, and the tickets would cost another $77.00 each. Took some arguing to get the [...]

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Around Seisia

13/08/2005
Cooler and windy today, didn’t feel like doing much so I didn’t
Got up early to watch the shipping coming in – in fact before dawn after a terrible night’s sleep, not helped by the late arrival of some noisy neighbours who made a lot of noise until about 1am.
Phil caught a 16.5kg mackerel, [...]

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Fishing

14/08/2005
Still feeling very grotty, so relaxed all day.Phil took Joe out fishing, they were back by 10.30 with an 11kg mackerel and a 7.5kg tuna. As you can imagine, Joe was more than impressed (actually, he was pleased to swap the tuna for the mackerel, as they’d already been eating tuna for the past week).
Late [...]

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