This is a small bush camp around 10km to the east coast from the Tip.

On our first day we saw a 3m crocodile swimming across the bay and about an hour later he came swimming back with a turtle in its mouth, the poor turtle was flapping its fins the whole way and then he disappeared into the mangroves.

Next to our camp a group of people arrived who were volunteers for the Tangaroa Blue Foundation which is an Australia wide not for profit organisation dedicated to the removal and prevention of marine debris. They were doing a week long clean up of the ‘Five Beaches’ which are along the east coast and is a well known 4WD track. So of course I volunteered. So Mon-Wed whilst Simon worked I was collecting rubbish off the beach.

Over the three days I did a mixture of beach collecting and sorting back at camp where everything is categorised and logged on a data base, they have this catalogue of how things are to be recorded. I was amazed that on one beach alone 70 separate thongs were washed up  (just to clarify for the Welsh followers thongs are flip flops not knickers!!). There were also heaps of small bleach bottles apparently, they wash in from Indonesia where they pour into the water to kill fish! There was very little Australian rubbish most of it was from overseas which is probably to be expected seeing we are at the tip of Australia and how the currents run.

When on the beaches which you can only get to with a 4WD you have to be super vigilant because there are many streams and there are lots of pumice lakes up in the dunes where the crocodiles live. We saw clear tracks of one medium sized crocodile all the way up the beach and into the dunes. When collecting near the streams we were only allowed to go in a certain distance  and you were constantly checking around you.

Great bunch of people thoroughly enjoyed my days with them we collected a total of 1.75 tonnes of rubbish.