Very hung over and tired we got back to Mick’s and chilled in the living room watching planet earth with Sarah. David Attenborough is the best person to listen to when needing to recover.
We decided to go snorkelling to sort ourselves out plus Sarah and Mickey wanted to show me Gordon’s Bay. We got some goggles and fins and 10 minutes drive later we had arrived. A couple of Sarah’s mates met us there at the sea side cafe and we were good to go. Along the path lead us to a rocky area with many locals sunbathing swimming and snorkelling. It was another great sunny day and the water looked amazing. We went straight in after we put our towels down and snorkelling equipment on. I forgot how hard it was to walk in fins and how stupid I looked, especially as the rocks we had to climb over were very slippery. After Sarah and Mickey laughed at me trying to balance on a rock as Sarah took a photo, we were ready for action. It was nice to know that I had the short straw with the leaking goggles but after 5 minutes of working out breathing through the snorkel, it was amazing. The water was pretty clear and the marine like was the sort you would get in tropical fish tanks. The colours of some of the fish were beautiful; bright blue, green, purple, yellow, pearl. Most of the fish were small but there were a couple of large ones that would swim further underneath the rocks when you get too close.
There were a couple of shark attacks yesterday in Tasmania and further up the East Coast so I had slight paranoia when I was in deeper waters. Watching Great White Sharks on Planet Earth jumping in and out of the water after seals didn’t help and knowing that one of the attacks was by a Great White!
It seemed like the locals weren’t bothered about the knowledge of sharks swimming around in the same water as they swam in. There were some people swimming really far out from shore too. I guess because the possibilities of being attacked by a shark are very slim, they must just not think about it much. It is more likely that you would get knocked down by a car on you’re way back from swimming/snorkelling/surfing in the sea than getting attacked by a shark.
We stopped at Coles supermarket on the way back from the beach. Kangaroo on the BBQ and beers were on the menu tonight. I think I’ve had Kangaroo once before but fresh steaks and sausages on the BBQ were amazing. We had good old Frank Sinatra’s real early stuff playing in the background; the weather was still really good with warm temperatures as the sun started to set. My Grandad loved Frank Sinatra so we raised our glasses and made a toast to him. It was a really good evening.
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