We headed from the Anenome lump to Beacon Island in the Wallabi Group, and picked up the mooring there. Access to the island itself is now forbidden as its where most of the murders during the Batavia shipwreck took place. We hoped to snorkel the wreck and as things were pretty calm, decided to jump in the dinghy and head around to the south of the island to see. Not a chance. The wreck site was very close to the breakers. So we gave up and headed back to the boat having checked out the possibility of diving the pass.

The mooring we were on was quite some way from the island - you can see Beacon Island and then the reef in the distance that Batavia hit. The next day things looked a bit calmer, so we headed around to try again and this time we had about 50m from the breaker line. We found a large open sand spot which we knew was the middle of the wreck and anchored the dinghy. On jumping in, we could see canons and anchors and some of the old timbers (the ones not removed to the Fremantle museum). It was very cool indeed.

From Beacon Island, we headed to Long Island to look at the snorkel trail, which was interesting but not more than that. Then we headed to Turtle Bay and picked up a mooring for a few nights. We now had our sights set on crayfish as we were running out of opportunities!