Great Barrier Reef, one of the seven wonders of the natural world and the only living thing visible from space... Check! Yesterday we were up early again, waking up to a beautiful Australia Day in Queensland, and were on board the boat and off out the harbour by 8am. Stopping at a couple of islands to pick people up, we corssed a rather choppy shipping channel, then got to the pontoon on the reef by 11am. Cruise Whitsundays pontoon was awesome, with so many thin...

Ahoy there landlubbers, splice up the main brace and serve me a kipper for tea. Howie and myself are now proper sailors and shall be talking in sailor-slang. I'm also going to get him a dashing Captain's hat for his birthday. Yesterday we had a completely wonderful day doing what is generally done in the Whitsundays; we went sailing on a rather splendid, purple sailing catermoran. Truly - it was great. We had a rather early pick up at 7am and got dropped off at ...

We are so very excited. We arrived in hot, humid, tropical Queensland two days ago and we have two trips booked to take us out to the Whitsunday Islands and out to the reef. Thursday was somewhat challenging, as we had to be up at 3.30am in order to get going by 4am and get to the airport for our 6am flight. The cycle there wasn't too bad, as traffic was minimal, but once we got to the airport and relaxed a little, it was difficult to get going again. It was a s...