To top the last SUP session, we went for a full moon paddle starting at 9pm. A fun crew gathered and ventured out for a quick paddle that turned into a mammoth 2 hour session.

Most of us had head lamps on so we were able to see all the marine life in the shallows. When you paddle during the day and you can't see past 20cm down due to salinity and the sun's glare, you wonder if there's anything down there. I know there is a ton of marine life down there just waiting till I paddle over the top. We saw millions of small and medium sized crabs and quite a number of needle nose fish. These fish literally jump out of the water and "run" across the water flicking their tail to propel them up and forward. They are amazing. We caught several unaware we were there until the last second and then you'd see them run away across the top of the water. One even banked itself on the shore and then managed to flip its way off. There's another type of fish that would just jump out of the water. One jumped onto Jen's board, almost hit her thongs off her board and then flopped back into the water.

The crabs were the funniest, they would just stop and stare at the light from our headlamps. Kareem managed to come from behind, that's what she said, and pick them up. He picked up two that were of eating size but the rest were smaller than these. We went down the main off-chute of the channel and saw so many crabs mating. We thought one was eating the other but we realised our mistake. We have now nicknamed that particular channel "Honeymoon Alley".