The day after we had our surf lesson in Agnes Water we both felt inspired and hired a surf board and they are the photos you can see on our website, both making slow progress. The following morning we set off early (7am) to Fitzroy Reef Lagoon on the Outer Barrier Reef for a dive and snorkel, etc. This lagoon is one of the southern most points where you can access the reef and its gained a reputation for having very colourful coral so we were both looking forwa...

After talking to you all last we headed off on the Whitsunday Magic for 3 nights sailing round the Whitsunday Islands. The boat we went on was an old fashioned schooner (to non sailing people - like me! it was a big boat with large sails and was very pretty! Not one of these flash, yacht type things). We went snorkelling in a place called Blue Pearl Bay which is on Hayman Island as well as the Giant Footsteps on the Great Barrier Reef. Saw some amazing fish an...

Hi everyone, just to fill you in on our latest moves. After leaving the cafe in the national park, we headed to a bat sanctuary in Cape Trib. We got to meet a very cute fruit bat whose name escapes us. He was very friendly and inquisitive and we made him very excited at one point where he proceeded to show off his equipment!! We then headed back down to Cairns where we planned to go diving but enroute we had over 300mm of rain so we had second thoughts. We'r...

Arrived in Oz on Saturday. The 34 degree temp and humidity hit us like a sledgehammer the minute we stepped off the plane in Cairns. We stayed at a dodgy hostel the first two nights. Our room was like a prison cell - not that either of us would know what they look like - and hope not to find out! On the first day we walked down to the beach front only to confirm what we had already heard, that going into the sea up here could result in instant death, by a num...