Strong winds

We spent about 4 days at Hope Isles.  The wind had changed dramatically from very light 10 Knots to about  30 knots and stayed that way.  To windy for fishing and snorkelling.  We made it over to the island once and had a great time stretching our legs and taking photos.     

The Donovan Ranges are at the northern end of the Daintree Rainforest.  In the background you can see the Craggy outline of Mt Pieter Botte 959m

 A few on the residents of Hope Isles.  The colourful one on the right is a Sacred Kingfisher.

 Ian taking photos with Winkali in the background.








Below I managed to get an in focus shot of a Crested Tern in flight.

This "baby" giant clam left in the dry at low tide, seemed to be winking at me.

Me reorganizing our stores so we could find things.

Ian took this photo between Hope Isles and Cooktown.  The wind had created enough swell to create a spectacular spray over the bow as the ship went through.





We're trying to leave Cooktown now, but for some reason our  gas alarm has come on which means that we can't use gas for our cooking till we can work out why it's doing it.  We may have to spend another day in Cooktown.  Frustrating - especially for Ian who's trying to figure out what's wrong while I'm writing this.