Heron Island is an amazing place. A two-hour fast boat ride from Gladstone in Queensland it is surrounded by reef and populated by thousands of birds. Noddy terns rest and nest in every tree and zip about just by your head. Banded Rails pick through the leaf litter looking for insects to eat. White egrets pace about.
Heron beach
There are fish galore even when just snorkelling off the beach. We’ve seen rays, reef sharks, fish of many colours, fish digging holes in the sand with their fins, fish popping their heads up and down out of coral holes, fish biting lumps off coral and lots and lots of sea cucumbers.
More diving for me today, but just one dive. The keen divers do three a day.
