Low Isle

Low Isle is one of my all time favourite stops. I can't really say anchorage as there are buoys to moor on.

It is picturesqe in the extreme. A jewel of a coral cay, capped by the magnificent light house with its white superstructure and red domed roof above the all important light.

The light is situated on the sandy cay on the NW side of the reef. The larger but lower cay on the eastern side of the reef, which is lightly wooded is home to hundreds of nesting terns.

The waters come complete with very friendly bat fish, who arrive, I hope not looking for food, as soon as they realise that a newbie has arrived on the mooring, as do quickly, the black tip reef sharks.

ok the boardies have seen better days, but the focus is really on the lighthouse

The island is part of the National Park system and is the closest to Port Douglas.
The light like all lighthouses in Australia now , is unmanned, but the lighthouse keepers houses are now used for the NP ranger who lives on the island.
Low Isles was the first light to be converted to solar power operations, from memory, in the early 1990s, prior to  the station becoming unmanned in 1994.

Bat fish and trevally

Bat fish and ramoras- remember one of these little suckers rated a mention once before.

Four foot blacktip and friendly ramora