“…I love the style – flavoursome and complex but also session-able and satisfyingly refreshing”Ĭast your mind back to simpler times – pre-pandemic 2019. It is from that place that our Manta Dark Lager was named, our first Special Release and also the first Straddie Brewing beer ever brewed… Yet another of Straddie’s many natural wonders is the Manta Bommie dive site, a collection of rocky outcrops just off Point Lookout that hosts a fantastic variety of sea life, especially through summer and autumn months. I had no idea at the time, but one of the best places to dive with Manta rays is far closer to home and doesn’t require an 18-hour drive to South Mission Beach (with only one Gameboy to share between the three oldest kids – my poor parents!). A bridge between the deep water of the open ocean and the bright sun-filled shallows – to us two-legged folk more familiar, closer to home. These pelagic giants were mesmerizingly graceful and seemed very much at home but were altogether in contrast to the bright colours and flashy, darting pulsations of reef fish. As my gaze drifted from the wall of the bommie, several Manta rays with wing spans at least twice as wide as I was tall loomed into view, sliding silently past. I was enthralled by the other-worldly coral, the crystal clear water and the dazzling schools of fish of every size and shape and colour. We went on a snorkelling day-trip to a group of coral bommies, part of the Great Barrier Reef, a couple hours motor off the coast. I was a child, holidaying with my family in North Queensland. The first time I saw a Manta ray I was in awe.
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