Voices From The North
Hear the latest from the team at Faraway Bay where guests experience the remarkable beauty, isolation, history, and natural and cultural significance of this remote slice of outback Australia.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Driving Us Batty!
One thing for sure, you never know what nature will dish up next at Faraway Bay. This week, we found a massive colony of red fruit bats in the mangrove creek system. There must have been 3,000 bats there – that’s the biggest colony I’ve ever seen of red fruit bats in one place.
We were also lucky to spot a group of rare Irrawaddy dolphins – there were six in the group. It’s not common to see them and it’s usually hard to get up close, but we were sitting on the boat and they just swam right past us.
The old man of the sea, a giant male dugong has been in the bay a fair bit lately. He comes in every day, pops up his head and swims off. He must be more than 6 foot long, which is why the crocs don’t bother him.
Steve McIntosh
We were also lucky to spot a group of rare Irrawaddy dolphins – there were six in the group. It’s not common to see them and it’s usually hard to get up close, but we were sitting on the boat and they just swam right past us.
The old man of the sea, a giant male dugong has been in the bay a fair bit lately. He comes in every day, pops up his head and swims off. He must be more than 6 foot long, which is why the crocs don’t bother him.
Steve McIntosh
