29th April Warderick Wells

29th April Dons Birthday

Early the next day we set off for Warderick Wells, a national park with just 20 moorings, it dries out in places you can actually walk across to the beach but there are quite a few sharks and stingrays about. 

You can see the hut, this was taken on one of our expeditions ashore 

The island itself has no facilities apart from an office where you pay for the moorings, it has postcards, T shirts, books to exchange and buy. There are lots of tracks on the island but sometimes you have too wade through water and the mangrove swamps, some places had huge holes in the rock you really don't want to fall into. Talking of holes there are "blow holes" in the rocks you ought to hear the sound of the water rushing up from the sea way below and the updraft is very loud.

You can see just how narrow this island is

There are lots of tracks on the island but sometimes you have too wade through water and the mangrove swamps, some places had huge holes in the rock you really don't want to fall into. 

Talking of holes there are "blow holes" in the rocks you ought to hear the sound of the water rushing up from the sea way below and the updraft is very loud.

We walked up to Boo Boo Hill where so many boaters have left a huge pile of boat names on driftwood, so we were not going to be outdone, Don did a sterrling job on some wood we found and burned our names and date onto so its now with all the others. Maybe we will return one day to add another date.

Look carefully you will see our sign

It was only water

The wildlife there, well lots of rare birds and one creature which looks like a giant hamster or rat as some may say is called a Hutia, they nest in trees or rock crevices, we were very lucky to get a picture as its nocturnal, the one we saw came down to steal the crackers the party goers had dropped.

On Saturday nights boaty people meet up on the beach for sundowners and snacks, we met some great people.

 One of the birds sometimes named a "sugar bird" and some people leave sweet things for it to eat but I'm not sure it was supposed to be drinking from the coke can that someone had turned their back on. Its so pretty, yellow, black and white, its real name is a Bananaquit" its yellow and black with some white, quite small with a slender curved bill so it can take nectar from flowers without pollinating the plant, it eats small insects too. It always has to perch as it can't hover like the hummingbird.

It has a curved bill

Thats us in the middle

Soft sand to land on

The wildlife there, well lots of rare birds and one creature which looks like a giant hamster or rat as some may say is called a Hutia, they nest in trees or rock crevices, we were very lucky to get a picture as its nocturnal, the one we saw came down to steal the crackers the party goers had dropped.

Hutia eating a cracker

On Saturday nights boaty people meet up on the beach for sundowners and snacks, we met some great people and exchanged info about places to see and go.

Soft sand between our toes

We had only planned to stay 2 or 3 days but we heard about the storms which were on our planned track so we stayed for 6. Way in the distance were some pretty spectacular lightening displays.
This place is one of our favourites by far, I took so many photos but can't post them all.

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