We are not going to claim the lagoon is better because of us. These are simply the things we do, and the things we refuse to do, on a normal working day.
We keep the boat parallel to the pod, never cut across it, and cut the engine at a distance. No more than a short time with one group, and we leave if the animals move away. Guests enter the water calmly, a few at a time, and never in the middle of a pod.
Drinking water and soft drinks come aboard in plastic — on a full day for a boatload of guests, glass is simply too heavy and too easy to break on a beach. Those bottles are collected, brought back and sorted for recycling on the mainland. Wine bottles are returnable and go back to the supplier, or are recycled. Food from the barbecue is served on reusable plates, and everything we take to the island comes back on the boat with us.
Several times a year the skippers who work this bay clear the beach and the shallows together. It is an afternoon of picking things up, not a programme — but it is worth mentioning because it is what actually happens.
