Day 77: Cape Range National Park (Day 3)

This morning Olivia and I headed into the national park visitors centre for a look around while the boys hung around camp. When we were done we drove back to camp to pick up the boys to have one last snorkel on the reef - this time at Turquoise Bay. The Turquoise Bay snorkel site is unique in that it as a strong south to north current along the coast. This means that we walked down to the southern part of the beach, got into the water and drifted with the current back north along the beach. The visibility was pretty good here despite the partly cloudy day. We again saw lots and lots of fish - including for the first time a yellow trumpetfish and a very large school of convict surgeonfish. Sadly this was the first day that we did not see any turtles, but we did see a couple of very large cowtail stingrays.

After three long days of snorkelling we were all pretty tired. We had a quiet evening around camp, found a few more bluespotted fantail rays along our local beach, and watched the sunset on our last night here in the Cape Range National Park.