We awoke to a beautiful day once again. Daddy was enjoying a swim of the back to the yacht yesterday so he jumped in again for a swim this morning to keep up the tradition.
After breakfast we all piled into the tender and with Nicholas driving we headed to the nearby beach for an explore. It was reasonably coarse sand with quite a few small shells. We identified the start of the bush walk and public toilets. The bush track goes to the very top of Whitsunday island past a waterfall and through the jungle. We all agreed to give it a go tomorrow. We spoke to another couple who arrived on the beach having finished the walk and they said it was possible to do in about 2 hours, something we later discovered the following day was highly ambitious. Daddy had a swim, it was refreshing although there was not much to see under the water. About 15m off the beach on the bottom of the water was a strip of debris on the bottom in 2m of water with broken branches, logs and leaves. These must have all been placed there as a result of the massive cyclone.
When you look carefully across Whitsunday Island, you can see the occasional tree knocked over and all have lost much of their leaves.
The day was getting late so we decided to head back to the yacht (which was about 150m away). Nicholas took over the steering of the tender. Jasmine decided to sit on the front of the tender and then swung her legs out of the tender to drag them in the water and promptly fell into the water. Daddy put the engine into neutral and we pulled a very surprised / shocked Jasmine onboard.
Unfortunately we saw Jasmine had a reasonably cut on her right foot, about 2-3cm long. We think her foot must have bumped the propeller. Mummy covered the wound while Daddy motored as quickly as possible to the Yacht.
When we were on the yacht Daddy washed out the cut and used butterfly strips to close the wound. Daddy and Mummy decided it was ok and didn't need a couple of stitches, but it was borderline. The butterfly strips worked perfectly and the cut was clean. We were very lucky. Lesson, keep your feet in the tender!
We all rested and enjoyed a quiet dinner.
With Mummy having a sore knee and Jasmine a cut that needed to be kept dry and clean to properly heal, it looks like only Daddy and Nicholas will be attempting the mountain tomorrow.