I just love this picture! We are in the middle of Cairns on the Esplanade up the airport end but you would never guess that we are practically in the middle of suburbia.

The Cairns homeschooling group meet most Mondays so we came along too.

Some exploring of the nearby Mangroves before directing the children back onto the beach.

the kiddos found a crab case. This got the children all excited and keen to find more crabs!

(Bit of an update: I'd mentioned about the kids finding this crab case. Crabs apparently 'molt' when their bodies get too big for their shell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_shell_crab and another good site http://www.dnr.state.md.us/baygame/bbc_molting.asp

Not sure if what we found was a crab molting or not. It was interesting to read about the life cycle of a crab so even though I'd grown up here in the tropics this was something new to me!)

Crab tracking and hunting is messy work!