Tuesday 3 August Beach BBQ was great and the next day, Friday we dinghyed to each of the three beaches at Thomas and walked each one. Pretty lazy day. We also walked to the other side of the island along a track marked out with old thongs. It was along an old creek bed thick with melaleucas. We emerged into a little cove which while pretty stank of rotting coral spores. That night we had drinks on the beach wit the usual crowd, plus the crews of two of the ARC round the world rally boats, one Poms the other Norwegian. Saturday we set off for Whitehaven Beach in think fog, which fortunately cleared by the time we were at the northern end of Shaw Island. We stopped at Maher Island for lunch and explored the “Phantom Cave”.