Pelsaert Group - Post Office Island

Group of 120 roughly divided in two (one for each ‘Explorer’)
We joined the Turtles
06.30 breakfast ready for 07.30 departure
We headed for a visit to Post Office island (supposedly named due to a cairn resembling a Pillar Box, where Jesse and his mum Jayne gave us talks on cray fishing and pearl seeding. Both excellent speakers and clear they don’t leave on such a remote island all the time. The island is entirely coral and really hard to walk on
Saw Pacific and Silver gulls, Fairy and crested terns and a Ruddy turnstone
Back for lunch and quinoa salad and ginger beer
After our first snorkel trip off the boat in a sheltered nook. Coral branches with amazingly bright blue tips and others like blue dinner plates. Some small fish and some amazing colours.Read more