We woke up to rain. Today we were booked on a Barrier Reef snorkelling adventure. So we headed anyway to the dive office expecting our trip may be cancelled. We were surprised to find out our tour was not cancelled. Our tour guide Nancy told us that the rain was coastal and when we got to the outer reef the weather would be different and anyway "the fish were already wet". We first went to Dunk Island to meet our boat and then we headed out to the outer reef. Th...

We started the day with saying Goodbye to Townsville and what better way to do so than from the Castle Hill lookout. You get to see the whole town from there, incredible beautiful views. We then started making our way up to Mission Beach, a pit stop at Lees Hotel - the Pub with no beer. Made famous by one of Slim Dusty's song, which originally was a poem. The background story is the Americans were travelling from Townsville to Cairns and Darwin in 1943 and they ...