Weekend on Moa Island November 2014

On the weekend of Friday 14th - Sunday 16th November 2014, we chartered a single engine, 4 seater plane to travel from Horn Island to Kubin Village on Moa Island to stay with our friends Mel & John & their 2 daughters Hannah & Poppy.

Friday 14th...

4 seater charter plane from Horn Island to Moa Island

View of Kubin Village as we come in for landing on Moa Island

Hannah, Milly and Evy watching dancing at the school fete on Friday 14th Nov

John and Tagai-Kubin students dancing at their school fete, Friday night

Saturday 15th... 

  

Mel & Jayne started Saturday morning with a beach walk on Sigun Beach.  We found 2 nautalis shells, a track left by a crocodile, a tiny red octopus living in a clam shell and a fat black sea cucumber.

We then all went to Gerain Beach for morning tea, lunch, beach walking, rock climbing, swimming & fishing off the beach.  Gerain beach is a 45min 4WD journey away from Kubin Village on Moa's Northern Coast

 

 

 

 

 

Dwayne caught 2 good sized Queenies & Mel took 1 too while the rest of us walked, swam, explored the rocks & collected shells.  We went home for a quiet afternoon once everyone was pooped & enjoyed Queenie fillets & fish cakes for dinner!

Sunday 16th...

Dwayne & John went out in a boat early to retrieve John's lost anchor, to fish & dive.  They came home at lunch time with 3 fish & 3 crays & happy faces.

Jayne, Mel & the 4 little girls drove to St.Pauls for a hike up Bera Hill followed by a picnic at Sigun beach under a lovely tree accessorised with a swing & a slide.

Wild horses by beach at St. Pauls village on Moa Island

Bera Hill view to East towards St. Pauls village

Bera Hill view West towards Kubin village

Rock balancing on top of Bera Hill, St. Pauls village, Moa Island, Torres Strait

Milly, Evy and Jayne atop Bera Hill, Moa Island, November 2014

Picnic at Sigun beach under the swing...

...and slide tree

Views from around Kubin Village...

Kubin Council building & community centre

Kubin Health Centre

Kubin Arts Centre

Kubin IBIS supermarket

Tagai-Kubin Campus Strait Start room (Montessori program for 0-3 year olds)

Photos from around St. Paul's village...

   Tagai- St. Paul's campus

 

 Goodbye...

 

Kubin airstrip & our plane

Heading back to Horn Island airport...