John cooked us bananas on toast for breaky while we packed up ready for Megs departure. I was knitting madly trying to finish Riley’s jumper which I didn’t finish in time for her to take home. I posted it a few days later from Lucinda instead.

Megs had the bus, ferry, shuttle bus and plane booked, so in that order she ticked off the day. John and I travelled with them on the bus to the Nelly Bay ferry terminal and spent an hour having hot chocolate and coffee  at a café before their departure.

It was a sad farewell for Grandma to see the little ones go although peace and quiet on the boat was welcome when we arrived back.

Soon as we arrived back on Ovive we up anchored and headed towards Rattlesnake island a distance  of only 15 nautical miles.

Leaving Horseshoe Bay

The island is used by RAFF Townsville which conducts live firing with military aircraft on regular occasions. When they are not live firing, they sometimes conduct survival courses. There was no live firing today so we were able to go ashore no further than the back of the beach.

While John went for a fish Morgan and I strolled along the beach looking for shells but they were all broken and bleached. Nothing worth collecting. John didnt do any good with the hunting either.

I did find some unexploded ordinance though.

A better option was to join Deb and Wayne and Geoff off Beach Bum for happy hour on shore and watch the sun sink low over the horizon. A very pleasant way to finish the day.