After leaving Fraser Island we've been heading north along the coast. We went diving at the Great Barrier Reef (our first time) from a place called 'The Town of 1770' and had the most unbelievable day. We had to wait 5 days to go out diving due to high winds and the 2 hour boat journey to Fairfax Island was very choppy but well worth it. The skipper said it was the best day that they'd had all year and we saw about 12 humpback whales, a massive bull ray, a manta ray breaching next to the boat (incredible), dolphins and loads of turtles.
Here is one of the humpbacks tail slapping.
This is the beautiful Fairfax Island:
This is the beach at Rosslyn Bay. From here we did a one day trip on a small yacht to the Keppel Islands. We had a lovely sunny day and went snorkelling and swimming in the crystal clear water.
This is Middle Island. You can just see our yacht on the left.
This is the view from a lookout on Middle Island.
Here's me practicing my diving.
We left the coast for 3 days to visit Eungella National Park. We swam in the freezing water at Finch Hatton. Here is me driving through a ford in our van that we've name 'Pom Pom' as it has 2 POMs in it.
Here are 3 beautiful river turtles.
Broken River in Eungella is the best place in the world to see platypus and we were lucky enough to see them. They are so cute.
Here's us inside a tree on one of our walks in the rain forest.
We arrived back at the coast in Cape Hillsborough National Park. Here is a funny blue crab.
Here is one of the hundreds of beautiful butterflies that we've seen.
We also went on a 3 day sailing trip around the Whitsunday Islands. Nic and I were the oldest on board but we had a wonderful time and the age difference didn't matter. We went diving and snorkelling and saw all shapes and colours of soft corals, turtles and loads of pretty fish. We also did a night dive which was very scary but amazing. We saw loads of turtles going to sleep and huge Trevally fish that swim right into you! We also saw a 6 feet Moray eel swimming along below us - we were told afterwards that this was very rare - cool!!!
When we got back to dry land we all met up in a bar and had a ball. We danced the night away with the tall mad German, crazy Danish, the wonderful English, the Aussies and even the the french. It was our first proper night out for ages and it was great. Nic and I even got ID'd on the way in - how hilarious! Nic showed the bouncers his bald patch and I showed them my wrinkles as ID! By the end of the night so many of the youngsters we'd met kept telling us how inspirational we were and h0w in love we looked. I felt like I was 24 again and it was brilliant. I think we made some friends for life! We will put some photos of our trip onto the next post.
At the moment we our with my lovely Auntie Mim in Townsville chilling out in her beautiful home with her huge fluffy dog. My parents arrive here today and we'll be hanging out together for the next week or so.
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