This is the life!

We got to our beachfront rooms at Long Island and decided we would go for a walk though the forest on one of the sign-posted tracks they have there. It had stopped raining thankfully so the conditions were nice. I was doing the map reading and we ended up on a totally different walk to which we had planned, but it was nice nonetheless! We saw a wallaby along the way and there were lots of birds about, still no snakes though! We got to some mangroves and spent a while watching all the mud fish and crabs going about their business. Long Island has just two resorts on it, Peppers is the other resort and is the complete opposite end of the scale to where we were staying, there are only five or six rooms and you have to stay there a minimum of seven nights. The rest of the island consists of woodland, with various lengths of walks, one allowing you to trek to a remote beach with a picnic.
We just got back from our walk in time for the fish feeding session out on the jetty. The guide threw some bread into the water and within a minute there were long Garfish swarming round to feed. Then, along came the Batfish, they were huge! We all got to lean off the jetty and actually feed them out of our hands, fantastic! It also got us even more excited about the next day’s trip to the reef.