You have got to be early to swim with turtles so our last snorkel began at 7am. Turtles are now officially the coolest thing alive. About 1.5 metres in length with a huge shell, we were entertained for half an hour by one funky guy. The sail back to Airlie Beach was peaceful, using nothing but the power of Mother Nature, we glided back at speed. What an awesome adventure with the nicest crew - Jess, Benny and G. The best trip yet!! We had the rest of the afte...

An alarm was not needed for our early morning rise due to the noise of the crashing waves. We were glad of the early wake up call as whilst eating breakfast and watching the sun rise, we were able to watch the turtles of the ocean take their first breaths of the day, what a great way to start the day! After grabbing a wetsuit incase of any stingers in the ocean we jumped on the tether and shot off into the distance towards The Whitsunday's, Whitehaven Beach. An...

Whitsunday's Wings Sailing boat is our hostel of choice for 3 days and 2 nights! Being warned about the 60km winds we braced ourselves for the mighty sail to Hooks Cove where we were to complete our first snorkel. What did we see? .......Goats! As the sea was churning the vision was pretty poor managing to only see some fish and coral. On ascent out of the water we noticed some mountain goats were observing our technique. The skipper "G" (Italian stallion), w...

So the bus journey...... Bus absolutely packed to the rafters and we are both sat at opposite ends of the coach. This means two things: We cannot sprawl all over each other in the all night strive for comfort and only one person gets the iPod (Matt of course). First of the rules of traveling on a coach that should be common sense but this evidently doesn't seem the case. Rules - People are going to recline but is all the way back necessary. - There is a bo...

Up early today with a view to redeem yesterday's failed missions. We venture around the rocks along the coast line instead of "bush whacking" and we were not disappointed the view before us. Clear water made it easy to identify all the marine life and a huge school of fish in there thousands creating a shape shifting cloud right beneath the surface. The hours passed by as we lazed on our own private bay - Monkey Bay. However upon departure we rechristened it Bu...