Join us this week as we explore Middle Percy Island in the Coral Sea. We find a massive sand hill to toboggan down, harvest coconuts, enjoy the chill vibe of...

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this week we introduced you to the percy

isles

an iconic stopover for cruising yachties

on the queensland coast

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we've been here a few days resting and

enjoying the island fire without good

friends Troy and Pascal from over

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first discovered by Captain James Cook

in the 1870s middle Percy was then

settled after the Royal Navy had ordered

goats to be shipped out here along with

coconuts and other edibles to be planted

on the island to provide a resource for

passing shipping the goats carried a

striking features of the Indian black

Nepal breed and have been providing meat

milk and skins for over 130 years

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I love you

with a few intriguing stories of

botanist being eaten by Aborigines

people disappearing and gold hidden

somewhere the island has since built a

reputation as a welcoming stopover for

cruising yachties

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so this is the thirty islands Yacht Club

and isn't it just magical space the

original shed or Yacht Club was actually

built down the beach in the 1950s it's a

much smaller place there is still some

memorabilia in there but they built this

big a-frame here to host all of the

cruising yachties that come here and

there are literally hundreds and

hundreds and hundreds of signs that your

Ease have made up and placed here so if

you come here and you hang out and you

add a little bit of goodness to the

space then you're welcome to put up your

own little sign and your only own piece

of memorabilia here and what a magical

place this is so the Yogi's who come

along this coast every year are

encouraged to stop in here at the percy

isles you can connect with the people at

the homestead on channel 73 you can buy

honey you can buy eggs or you can trade

if you need any assistance they'll come

down and help you yeah so we just

hanging out here this afternoon just

chilling out it's just been divine

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we break a lovely little coconut till

the other day and the old shape used to

come around and used to come back in

quite an aggressive shape but anyway you

can see where it's broken off but we're

lucky enough there's enough fat in it

and we can we're just going to take it a

little slice out of the air go and give

it a new lease of life and yeah we'll be

waiting

yeah and not only that you wouldn't

believe it but there's pay our only saw

my Ma's will bring the grande over and

picks the two up and be taken up to life

yeah I said we just liked a little bit

of a sharp edge on only a little too

early and once you hook around the top

of the knot we should be able to just

pull him damn just cut straight

trick well back in business back in

business we were lucky to be invited up

to the homestead 14 so took the walking

track up through the mangroves and

woodlands with Troy and pesky for a

vigorous more inside

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baldness

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we followed the Craigie signs through

the woodland areas which hosts carriage

on cassia Makai Cedars pipelines

peppermints bloodroot trees and paper

box

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we've taken fresh pumps up to share our

recover prior to Kate and Bernstein

taking us for a tour of the outer

regions of the island to spy the goat

leaders of Castle Rock

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kate is a modern-day botanist chatting

enthusiastically about the islands

history and a myriad of special plants

to be found on Percy Island

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right now

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you can take the opportunity to stay at

the Percy's the recently renovated

treehouse is available for rent and

volunteers are always welcome to lend a

hand with the upkeep of this iconic

paradise so I'm just hanging out here in

the hammock and the in the percy hilton

it's a pretty nice way to spend a couple

of hours just chilling out and relaxing

it's so lovely that they provide this

for your knees how lucky are we anyway

that was enough lazing around I better

get a rental on this is coming down

shortly just set up a five where he's

going to cook up a goat curry his famous

goat curry which would be really special

and Kate's coming down from the

homestead and Troy and Pascal are coming

in from Meru so should be a nice little

gathering this evening and I've got to

get out there and make a salad and some

couscous and bring in some veggies to

pop in the curry should be really good

Darren's got his coconuts and we'll

share those around so it should be a

nice evening by the fire yeah I really

like the way because they don't get a

lot of fresh veggies out here they get

their supplies every few weeks or every

months I think it as they go over in the

boat to get their supplies for the

homestead so they're often eating the

frozen veggies and leftovers and not

fresh so it's nice to be able to put in

and share our fresh veggies and our

fresh produce that we have on board with

these guys the boat should be back

tomorrow night actually they are over

there at the moment restocking so

they're really low on stock and um I

feel pretty happy they'd be able to

contribute with some fresh healthy

veggie

should be good back at the a-frame and

we saw that Troy and peski had woven a

beautiful mat to place over the coconut

spike so Darren put it to good use

asking his coconuts to share with the

evening meal

okay we're all ready to go a bead so

I've got a nice green salad because

these guys haven't had to sell it for

ages so be really good to give them some

nice fresh produce and we've got pumpkin

and beetroot and zucchini to add to the

goat curry and we've got my soup here

because I'm on vegetable soups at the

moment so we've got that for me and

we've got some couscous cooking away

here to add to the curry so they're

pretty cool I get quite excited because

we don't actually get it with a lot of

people all the time so it's pretty cool

to UM to go it's kind of like meeting up

with your family on a Friday night or

something

that's neat isn't it babe yeah make

something up a bit yeah anyway I'm gonna

go and put on some long-sleeve shirts

and long pants because it's Muzzy time

but it should be good should be good

Bobby go on Dara is just fiddling around

with their kumrah yummy

yeah

bass is famous for his goat curry so if

you're looking up to be invited met the

opportunity to share in one of his

feasts

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special thanks to Cajun danced his

generosity reminds us to pay it forward

to those we meet along the way thank you

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