Brian Lee tagalong tour by Samuel

Today we drove to Kooljaman to start our tour with Brian Lee. We drove off to the beach and stopped to look at some middens which were places where the indigenous had their dining, meeting place and lounge all together. We drove off then stopped to do some spear fishing. We all hurled our spears at a school of mullet but none of us caught one. We stopped at another site and looked at some manta rays swimming past, 50 metres later we saw some stingrays. We stopped again and Brian showed us how to whistle through a periwinkle. After we tried catching ghost crabs down their holes, I was the only one game enough to pull one out. We stopped at the edge of Hunters creek and Brian speared a Mangrove Jack with a speargun. We stopped to see if we could catch some Muddies, along the way we saw stacks of tiny soldier crabs and a few blue crabs. We found a muddie with half of its legs missing and then another that we all took turns picking up. We walked in the mangroves and Brain managed to spear a mullet. We got out of the creek and caught small, flightless (flowers on a bush that looked like birds) birds and ripped their heads off them and sucked the juice out of their necks (this is a dreamtime story). We drove to a swimming spot to rinse of the sand that covered us then drove back over the sand dunes and back to camp where we saw two lionfish.

 at the midden

 Brian showing us how to throw a spear

 practicing

 digging for gohst crabs, I caught one

 looking for mud crabs

 holding the muddy

 hunting

 our tour group

the great beach at cape leveque