Day 91-94: Great Keppel Island

Things one can do on a mostly deserted, tropical island.

Enjoy your new home.

Follow all the trails to all the places.  (They were sandy, so not exactly the easiest to walk along, though.)

Enjoy the oversize maps of the place.

Be amazed that somehow a resort managed to not survive here, and that the infrastructure from that resort is rapidly crumbling.

Enjoy the views.

And the sun shelters by the views.

I mean, seriously.

Totally worth the trip.

We eventually did go to the above beach for a day, but I neglected to take pictures.  It is exactly what you think it looks like:  Long white sand beach.  Clear water.  We took snorkeling gear and saw a bit of a small reef.  Molly saw a jellyfish the size of her face, and I saw a turtle.

As evening fell on the second day, it was clear enough that we were treated to an Australian sunset on the water.  (I apologize, because I have taken, and will take many many more pictures of sunsets.  And of course, pass them on to you.)

We originally planned on staying for only 2 nights, but when I tried to book a train for the third day, I found to my (not really) dismay, that the train was fully booked.  So I booked it for the next evening, and we had to hang out for another day on the beach and snorkel, and stand up paddle board, and just be lazy.  Life was hard.  We hung out with a great Moroccan couple, who were flying out the same day we were taking the ferry.

All things must come to an end eventually, though.  The last evening, we had a beer at the only operating business on the island, a cafe/restaurant/bar, and got ready to leave the next morning.  We probably would have stayed even longer, but had really only brought food for 3 days, which we stretched to 4, just barely.  Also, we had a train to catch to Cairns, and a booking on a boat to see the Great Barrier Reef.

Solid pieces of wood 14 feet long built this table and bench. Sorry about the blurry photo, though.