As we approached the jetty we could see what a beautiful place Shazza had sent us to.......a palm lined beach with crystal clear waters and activities going on everywhere you looked! We instantly relaxed let out a sigh and immersed ourselves into a little bit of luxury. We were met by a resort rep who gave took us to check in and gave us a quick guided tour en route, no heavy bag with our lives for the next year in to lug with us for once as the bags were being delivered to our door...we felt like we had landed in paradise!!......thanks Shazza.
We quickly made ourselves at home in the huge room before we headed out to sign up for all the free tours and activities then do a little snorkelling around some ship wrecks just off the beach. This was idyllic until Mike saw a fin about 30m down the beach- ut oh. We opted to abort snorkelling and did a spot of shark spotting from the beach instead. The shark fins appeared once more and in hind sight may well have been more dolphin fins than shark fins but the fear was well and truly set in!!
That night we headed out to the jetty and dolphin feeding before diner. That was v cool the dolphins are wild but have been getting fed every night at the same time for many years and bang on time swam into the bay and awaited diner. We got to wade out into the water with around 11 dolphins. And took it in turn to hand feed them fish. Mike dolphin was a 17 year old, with a few battle scars from shrak attacks a from a few years ago.
We splashed out and ate in the resturant that night, eating as much of the buffet as physically possible, inhaling our food after a busy day!! Two deserts my have been a little greedy but Strawberry cheesecake and pavlova were tasty!!
The next day we got up in time to do a bushtucker walk with a local guide, getting to eat some wild passionfruit and some weird looking berries.
After lunch we played some B'Ball, archery and yes Laura I'm man enough to admit you were better than me.
Then we went out to the beach and tried to catch some diner. Unfortunately, it seems frozen Octopus is not a favourite of the Nemo's in Moreton bay, so after a couple of hours we headed back to the shop and made do with sausages for the BBQ that night (much to Mikes disgust having to watch the guy next to him land two snappers while we were not getting a sniff on our rod)!!
Before we had our BBQ we headed back to the jetty to hang out with dolphins for their dinner time. The time had flown by, we had our last night of luxury before we were to leave. We did manage to fit a sand safari and sand boarding in prior to the 4pm ferry. The sand boarding was cool 60kph on a piece of wood down a huge dune!! It took a few days to get all the sand out of our ears, noses etc!!
We got on the ferry sad to say goodbye to Moreton island a place we could have spent alot more time getting to know.
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