Sea Kayaking among the Barnard Islands
Queensland, Australia - November 2001
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| Setting out for three days kayaking, camping, and lazing about on the Barnard Islands. | ||
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| We got some incredible skies that evening... | ||
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| More gorgeous skies. The smoke is from a couple of large fires. Never did find out if they were normal controlled sugar cane field burnings, or what... | ||
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| This was wild! At one point the storm edge actually stood off of the island by a few dozen meters for some five minutes. This wall of falling water just held there like some wizard's trick. | The rain was coming down so hard that it was quite a sight to watch it churn the surface of the ocean. | |
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| We did a bit of snorkeling off of Kent Island and saw many clams embedded in the coral here. Weird looking. Nifty colors too! | This is the island's "blowhole" -- it puts out quite a loud deep thud as well. | |
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| Yes, it's the native Australian "thong tree". | Looking back from whence we came. |