After a quick walk ashore, we lifted the anchor and headed to the start of the path into the loop that we’d spotted. We were probably a bit early as the tide at the loop is a way behind the tidal point we were using but we had just enough to squeak in with less then 0.2m beneath the keels. Once over the shallow part, there was plenty of depth all the way in. It was worth it…

There’s plenty of room for a few boats, so we gave our neighbours space. The weather was stunning, total glass out. So the next morning we set off to hike to the west coast of Dirk Hartog island. Up and over the dunes was the easy part - the scrub was less fun to walk over, but we made it to the cliff lookout on the far side.

The walk back was harder as we ended up mostly walking over scrub. Spikey!

The afternoon stayed calm, so we took to the standup paddle boards and glided around the shallows over baby sharks, rays, sea snakes and turtles. Very cool (but alas no photos).