Dolphins at T-Bar Creek Anchorage

Dolphins at T-Bar Creek Anchorage.

As I had mentioned earlier, living on a flat bottom houseboat can be an adventure especially if you get move tide and waves on the ocean to deal with. While we were heading north up the Great Sandy Straits on Fraser Island we decided that there was really no comfortable spot to anchor and not feel like you would be bounced around so the solution was to travel during the day until about 3:00p or so and then head inland to a river inlet which would be deep enough in low tide to anchor down. If you chose incorrectly and choose a spot too low in high tide you would surely be hung up on the beach when low tide went out 8 hours later. In any event, we anchored in T-Bar Creek. Out in the distance Tracie spots something in the water which was an elegant sea snake which was about 9 feet long and hunting for crabs and shrimp. It scared the @#$@% out of me. As we are watching the water for more, she then notices a pod of dolphins approaching the boat. She quickly gathers the kids into the tinny, grabs some bait fish and heads out to make their acquaintance. The kids fed them and pet them and swam with them all afternoon and as evening approached the dolphins departed Northward I suppose looking for more food. What we later learned for the boat owners was that this was only the third time in eight years that they have been running the business that they have heard of a dolphin encounter in that area. Needless to say that Tracie and the kids feel very privileged.