We walked down the beach after breakfast this morning to find a school of stingrays right on the waters edge. We stood in the shallow water and watched them move around our legs. Whenever a shark came into view the rays would move off as a group and when the coast was clear they would move back in close to shore again. We started today with a swim at the gantry. It is amazing how many thousands of fish we could see all at once. Every once in a while a shark wou...

We managed to mostly sleep through the night, thanks to earplugs and the ceiling fans. We still got up pretty early and went to breakfast. After sufficient coffee and some food we grabbed our snorkel gear and headed to Shark Bay to see some fish. Maybe we should have thought a little bit more about the title "Shark Bay." I am not sure what I expected but it probably wasn't standing in knee deep water and having several three to four foot sharks circle my legs. ...

We had our first early morning in ages. We woke at 5am and left Daphne and Trevor's at 5:30 to drive 289K to Gladstone to catch our boat out to Heron Island. Heron Island is a tiny island 89K off the East Coast. The Island is a 42 acre coral cay within the Capricorn Island group and sits just south of the Tropic of Capricorn. It is located in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef. The waters surrounding the island support around 900 of the 1,500 fish specie...