On Wednesday we had a chilled out day, the sun shone, we sunbathed and went in the pool. After a lot of deliberation booked our trip to the Great Barrier Reef as the weather forecast for Valentines day was good, apparently before the next load of rain - but read on for that!!!
We travelled to the Barrier Reef on the high speed catamaran Eyespy with Cruise Whitsundays a 3 hour trip for Chris and a 3 hour nightmare for Sue!!!! we called in at Daydream and Hayman Islands before sailing across the high (very) seas to Knuckle Reef lagoon. We arrived at a pontoon moored next to the Reef, there was a also a small glass bottomed viewing boat and a semi submersible boat and a small helipad.
Chris did some snorkeling - which was around the reef edge, then the real thing - scuba equipment/tank/breathing apparatus attached, a quick demo in the launch chamber, then off went Chris Cousteau - Chris's comment on it was that it was one of those lifetime experiences - when you can get to close to a dazzling array of coral, colours, fish, crustaceans he really enjoyed it and was impressed with the slickness of the operation. While Chris was doing that Sue saw the reef without getting wet!!!
Friday morning we woke to torrential rain and heard on the radio that Mackay which was the city we had gone through 3 days ago had been declared a distaster area beause of the 600mm of rain they had had in 3 hours. Luckily we were travelling North so didn't have to go near Mackay.
We are now in Townsville which is called the capital of the North, and wait for it!! still very wet, hoping it will clear in the next couple of days, but at the moment there are severe weather warnings out, so no sunbathing today!!
Hoping to go to Magnetic Island tomorrow for an overnight stay.
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Hi Sue & Chris
We're still reading avidly but sorry we haven't commented recently, there's been a lot going on! Which we will tell you about when we see you. Glad you're still enjoying it. Don't forget to speak to all the geordies you meet it will remind you of Champ d'Oeuf!
Oh no not more rain!!!It doesn't sound like it's interfering too much with your trip tho.
The high speed 3 hour catamaran sounds horrendous and I can imagine how Sue was feeling at the end of that, yuk!! I'll bet it was a fantastic experience to go scuba diving there but I think I would have stayed with Sue on that 1 and let Chris Cousteau swim off on his own!!
Take care and looking forward to the next blog. Hope the weather brightens up for you too.
LL xx
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