Coral Sea-Day 2: Osprey Reef
2024年11月2日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
Coral Sea-Day3; Great Barrier Reef-Day 1
2024年11月3日, Great Barrier Reef ⋅ 🌬 79 °F
Our first day in the Great Barrier Reef!!
FYI: "Bommie" is an Australian term for coral reef or rock formation typically resembling a column.
Video 1 and 2
2024年11月3日, Coral Sea ⋅ 🌬 79 °F
Our tour provider created a video for the group. Since find penguins only supports 2 minute video, I broke the video into 3 sections
Video 3 of 3
2024年11月3日, Coral Sea ⋅ 🌬 81 °F
Video 3 of 3
Great Barrier Reef Day 2 - Lizard Island
2024年11月4日, オーストラリア ⋅ 🌬 79 °F
Our 7-day dive trip was a combination of 2 excursions: a 4d trip with 3 days in the Coral Sea and 1 day in the GBR, and a 3d trip fully in the GBR. Lizard Island was the 'transition point' for thoseもっと詳しく
Great Barrier Reef-Day 3
2024年11月5日, Great Barrier Reef ⋅ 🌬 79 °F
Great Barrier Reef - Day 4
2024年11月6日, Great Barrier Reef ⋅ 🌬 79 °F
Last day on the Great Barrier Reef 😥
Drive south to Townsville
2024年11月7日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 77 °F
7 days of diving was excellent. Now we're off to our next destination: Airlie Beach. Since it's ~7 hour drive, we broke it up with a stop at Mission Beach for a look, then followed the coast southwardもっと詳しく
Video 1 2
2024年11月7日, Great Barrier Reef ⋅ 🌬 81 °F
Mike Ball Dave shop, our provider created a video for us. Find penguins limits video to 2 minutes, so I had to separate the video to 4 videos under 2 minutes.
Videos 1 and 2
Video 3 4
2024年11月7日, Great Barrier Reef ⋅ 🌬 79 °F
Videos 3 and 4 of the Great Barrier Reef
Morning in Townsville, then on to Airlie
2024年11月8日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
Woke up this morning to watch the canoeing club return from the Magnetic Island. It's dangerous to swim in the water due to stingers, so the next best thing is to canoe. There are also a number ofもっと詳しく
Airie Music Fest
2024年11月9日, オーストラリア ⋅ ⛅ 84 °F
We arrived just in time to experience the annual Airlie Festival of Music (8-10 Nov). We visited 5 bars with bands, but regretfully took very view pictures
Last day of Airlie Music Fest
2024年11月10日, オーストラリア ⋅ ⛅ 81 °F
Today we tried a few more bars to hear a few more performers....
Mount Rooper
2024年11月11日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 81 °F
A little relaxation on the balcony followed by a nice little hike in/around Mount Rooper.
Walk around Airlie
2024年11月12日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 81 °F
Day trip to Hamilton Island: part 1 of 2
2024年11月13日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
Our trip to Hamilton Island included a beautiful ferry ride (~50min) from Airlie, a kayaking outing at Catseye Beach where we saw the before-and-after effects of the tidal swings, and an island busもっと詳しく
Hamilton Kayaking & Tidal Effect: pt 2
2024年11月13日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
Because of the tide schedule, the last start-time for kayak rentals at Catseye Beach is 10:30a.
Rest and planning
2024年11月14日, オーストラリア ⋅ ⛅ 81 °F
Outrigger Canoeing w/ local club
2024年11月15日, オーストラリア ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
During one of our walks we saw a sign promoting outings with the local canoeing club called The Whitsunday Outrigger Canoe Club. After contacting the club, we learned they offer Friday evenings forもっと詳しく
Guided Kayak Outing to White Rock Reef
2024年11月16日 ⋅ ⛅ 81 °F
Signed up with SaltDog Kayaking for a Half day inner island turtle tour.
We were picked up and driven to Shute Harbor provided our instruction and off to Turtle Harbor in the hunt for Turtles. Weもっと詳しく
Catamaran Sailing - Day 2
2024年11月18日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F
Morning snorkel in a bay on the north side of Border Island. As you can see from the pictures the water quality was a little cloudy. We were told the water quality changes with the weather.
Catamaran Sailing: Day 2
2024年11月18日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
We had a little fun with the fishes before taking off for the Whitsundays.
Today we visited the Whitsunday Island - Hill Inlet!
Catamaran Sailing - Day 3
2024年11月19日, オーストラリア ⋅ ⛅ 79 °F
Morning snorkel on the north side of Hook Island. The reef was an improvement over the previous day, but the water quality was still cloudy.
Catamaran Sailing: Day 3
2024年11月19日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F
Waking up on the northwest side of Hook Island. We took a short ride to a snorkeling area shown in the previous footprint. Then, we powered to the NW side of the island to check out fish and anもっと詳しく
Catamaran Sailing - Day 3
2024年11月19日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F
Couldn't resist adding a few extra inflatable stand up boards pictures. Everyone had a fun time. Having said that, I would definitely try one before making a purchase. These were inflatable stand upもっと詳しく