Friday Island Daytrip with Maguire Family

Morning boat trip to POW Big Buttertin beach and Friday Island with the Maguire family.

August 2014

Torres Strait

Trip to the Tip

A weekend boat trip with the McGuires and Bardons to the tip of Cape York in Far North Queensland and lunch at Punsand Bay Camping Ground...

Dwayne at the tip

Jayne and the girls at the tip - Far North Qld

Dwayne on Punsand Bay beach

Dwayne and pizza at Punsand Bay

Everyone enjoying their pizza and beer lunch at Punsand Bay Camping Ground

Punsand Beach at campground

Punsand Bay Camping Ground restaurant on the beach

The campground's helicopter parked on the beach ready for joy flights

The permanent tents at Punsand Bay Campground - cute!

Dwayne and girls enjoy the campground pool

The kids eating their lunch - pizzas and iceblocks are all that is available...

Milly in the restaurant

The Ahmats catch a ride back to T.I. in the McGuire's boat...

Dwayne bringing Ruby back to T.I. on the glassy ocean!

Milly happy in the McGuires boat

Leaving Punsand Bay

Milly, Tallan, Cassie

The monument marking Cook's landing and claiming Australia on Possession Island, Far North Qld

View from above the surface of the water down into a reef near Possession Island where we fished

Friday Island get together

A good morning for boating with the sun out, the Sager South-Easterly winds calming this weekend to 15-20knots & 3 families picnicing & playing on the sand spit of Friday Island...

McGuires and Grays lead the flotilla to Friday Island

The families take over the beach...

The McGuire boys and their boat

Digging and wading on Friday Island Sand Spit June 2014

Clear water, fluffy clouds, long stretch of sand, kids...

The grown-ups...

Milly and Evy paddling

Dwayne and Evy taking a dip - Friday Island - June 2014

Beachcombing ~ Friday Island ~ Ahmat, Gray & McGuire families...

Dwayne's parents visit...

May 2014
Dwayne's Mum, Thelma, and Step-dad, Maurie, came for a long weekend visit in May.
They arrived on the Friday afternoon flight and we showed them around T.I. in the car & around our house.

We had dinner at the Grand Hotel's Malu Paru restaurant that night...

On Saturday morning we took Thelma & Maurie out in the boat - though the weather was less than favourable - windy & choppy!

We enjoyed a picnic at Little Buttertin Beach on P.O.W. Island, which was nicely sheltered from the seasonal South-Easterly.  We explored the dunes, rocks, wildflowers & the girls had a swim.

We had booked to go to Kazu Pearl Farm on Friday Island for a pearl tour & Japanese lunch - so headed there next...We had our own private "coconut hut" to enjoy our lunch in.

 

Then we had a tour of the pearl farm, where Thelma & Maurie saw a pearl seeding demonstration & looked at opened pearl shells to see the animal & pearl inside.

This pearl shell even had a darling little crab inside!

  
Then we headed back through the swell to T.I. - a very wet ride!

Sunday was Mother's Day.

Maurie and Dwayne went fishing on the rock wall at Quarantine in an attempt stay out of the wind a bit...

Thelma, the girls & I had morning tea together.

 

Monday...
Dwayne headed to work, but Milly had a day off school so we could take Nanny to Strait Start.
We walked along the Esplanade and played at the pearl shell and turtle sculptures.

 

 

Then we had morning tea at Uncle Frankie's Cafe in Douglas St, visited Mona's dress and souvenir shop & walked through the Gab Titui Cultural Center...

...before taking Thelma and Maurie down to Navy Wharf to catch the Rebel Ferry back to Horn Island for their flight.

Thanks for visiting us Nanny and Maurie!