Merry and Bright Christmas Cards

Morning everyone, what a beautiful start to our morning here, a little bit of rain.  I don't feel it will be here all day but it has broken our dry spell.  We have been on fire ban for the past month due the dryness. Today I have the two November swap cards I have done for Craftmad Swappers (an Australian card swap group). The last six months of this year our swaps are all Christmas cards with themes.  For November one card had to be Merry and Bright and the second card wash Merry and Bright with ornaments.

Hope you wake to some lovely weather.

Michaelmas Cay and Vlasoff Cay

 Morning everyone, thanks to those who have visited.  It has been so lovely seeing familiar names and inspires me more to get back into blogging and visiting online friends around the world.  Time to share some more boating photos.

The weather was awesome yesterday to take the boat out to the reef, so we headed out to Michaelmas Cay and Vlasoff Cay as did a lot of other people.  This was an hour boat ride for us on almost flat water - magic.

Trinity Inlet - Cairns on the left

Cairns shoreline

 Michaelmas Cay is a bird sanctuary which humans can (should) only be in a certain roped off area near the sign you will see in the photo below and also only be there between 9.30am and 3pm.  We swam ashore to check out the birds and reread the sign, it's been about 5 years since we've been out here.  A lot of chicks and birds sitting on eggs on the Cay at the moment.  Snorkelling was the next on the agenda on the way back to the boat, we saw a turtle, loads of pretty coral - purples, pinks and I even spied one red rose shaped coral/weed.  Lots of fish - big and small, parrot fish and even a couple of Nemo's (ocellaris clown fish), star fish and sea cucumbers and much more.  I just don't know the names.

Michaelmas Cay

Michaelmas Cay

The water was so clear we almost didn't need to snorkel but had too swim as the temperature was also perfect.  We were all prunes by the end of the day - so much swimming.

For lunch we decided we'd head to Vlasoff Cay about 5mins from Michaelmas. That white mark in the middle of the ocean.

Everyone else was here too. :-). As it was lunch time a lot of people out fishing come in here to stretch their legs.  The water was so shallow as we had anchored the boat here and were able to walk to the cay if we wanted too.  

Heading home, back down Trinity Inlet and around Admiralty Island to Redbank ramp. Once the boat is on the trailer it is only a 15 min drive home.  Then it's time to wash the boat, followed by doing nothing as we are exhausted from the sunshine, fresh air and swimming all day. :-). 

Thanks for visiting again, hoping your day has a little special in it somewhere.