Today we drove to Kooljaman to start our tour with Brian
Lee. We drove off to the beach and stopped to look at some middens which were
places where the indigenous had their dining, meeting place and lounge all
together. We drove off then stopped to do some spear fishing. We all hurled our
spears at a school of mullet but none of us caught one. We stopped at another
site and looked at some manta rays swimming past, 50 metres later we saw some
stingrays. We stopped again and Brian showed us how to whistle through a
periwinkle. After we tried catching ghost crabs down their holes, I was the
only one game enough to pull one out. We stopped at the edge of Hunters creek
and Brian speared a Mangrove Jack with a speargun. We stopped to see if we
could catch some Muddies, along the way we saw stacks of tiny soldier crabs and
a few blue crabs. We found a muddie with half of its legs missing and then
another that we all took turns picking up. We walked in the mangroves and Brain
managed to spear a mullet. We got out of the creek and caught small, flightless
(flowers on a bush that looked like birds) birds and ripped their heads off
them and sucked the juice out of their necks (this is a dreamtime story). We
drove to a swimming spot to rinse of the sand that covered us then drove back
over the sand dunes and back to camp where we saw two lionfish.
at the middenBrian showing us how to throw a spear
practicing
digging for gohst crabs, I caught one
looking for mud crabs
holding the muddy
hunting
our tour group
the great beach at cape leveque
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