Swift Bay has numerous art sites with Bradshaws and
Wandjinas and a few later works added on. A grinding stone for ochre still sits on the original mortar under the overhang.
A friendly
lemon shark (we think, no Google up here!) came by, under and slowly circling
us, so close we could almost pat him. A
reef shark swam along under him and a few remoras tagged along too, with a
school of yellow and black striped little fish ahead and along his pectoral
fins like a ceremonial parade. He stayed
around all morning, and then there were two.
By afternoon there were three, all about 3 metres, of them cruising
around, not worried about us at all – just magnificent. Big broad head with a square mouth, tiny
whitish eyes, all sandy in colour and long tails that moved them effortlessly
with merely a wiggle.
Art Creek, also in Swift Bay, has lots more rock art
and easy to access so cruise boats stop there too.
An
overnight stop at Tjungkurakutangari Island only emphasised the many and varied
names of the thousands of islands in this archipelago. From French, Dutch, Indonesian and English
they seemed to have ignored that there would have already been Indigenous names
for these places, perhaps they forgot to ask.
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