On Sunday Digby and I paddled our sea kayaks north to Emmagen Creek. On the return journey, the pointy bit of my boat nearly collided with a dugong. It was crossing in front of the kayak, diving out of the water and then plunging. It was so close I felt I could almost touch it. In twenty years of living here, I have never seen a dugong and to see one so close - WOW! what a privilege.
The tail flashed before me - it was like a miniature whale - and the mermaid like tail gives rise to the legends about 'mermaids'.
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