we were up early and after breakfast went down to jetty for the pelican feeding.






every morning at 8:30am at Tangalooma resort they feed the pelicans some fish. while doing so they keep an eye out for any that may have come to grief with stray fishing hooks or lines etc. and to entertain the new boat load of tourists coming in.

some pelicans have a band around their leg, these are pelicans who were caught in the oil spill in the area earlier this year, they were cleaned up and released back into the wild, only female pelicans were found to have been caught up in the spill.


the cormorants hang around the pelican feeding but are not (deliberatley) fed, as they dont want to encourage them, as then they will start harassing people and fishement and more likely become pests andget them selves caught up in fishing gear and


the dominant male asserting his right to get fish first
I wouldn't like to get on the wrong side of a pelican. apparantly the small amount of seagulls around is because pelicans will kill them, they hold them like this around the neck and drown them, and when food of fish is in short supply, seagulls can become a tasty snack for pelicans!






after the pelican feed it was coffee time. here's the view from my table, selective picture taking it looks like a remote paradise here :]


on the Tangalooma Dugong explorer boat, looking for dugongs and dolphins on the eco cruise, headed to the southern end of the bay side of the island.

we didn't see any dugongs or any dolphins in the bay on this day (and no dugongs at all any day ) :[

the most exciting thig that happened was my cap blew off into the water and the boat turned around so went back for it, fishing it out with a big stick.


David's hat, however stayed on ;p


that dark blob shape in the water is a green turtle , really
we saw 3 turtles on this journey, but that was the only sea life we found




we didn't find any dugongs so we went for a little look round the wrecks before heading back to shore.
it was our first close up look at the wrecks. we saw a lot of these and took loads of pics of them each day of our stay as they are one of the main features of the resort.







That evening we walked along the beach to watch the sunset over the wrecks, but there was a lot of low cloud over the mainland so we didn't really get much of a colourful sunset on this night