Airlie Beach to Townsville Just saw a "Big mango" with its own tourist information centre. Only in Australia... Quite fancy a mango now. Townsville We arrived here on Wednesday and Anna picked us up. We saw the main streets of Townsville that afternoon and walked along The Strand, which looks rather different to its London counterpart, being lined with palm trees, children's playgrounds and a sandy tropical beach. Thursday, we were going to go to M...

I guess you're wondering how and why I went diving! Yesterday I went on a boat with about 55 other people onto this pontoon about 90kms out to sea on the Great Barrier Reef. I was on my own cos simon decided to do something different. The pontoon has a glass bottomed boat, a semi-submersible boat and snorkelling and diving facilities. I was intending to try snorkelling but not diving. However, on the boat out there they did a talk about diving and showed us the e...