Club Tropical Resort Great Barrier Reef

... Strand gesucht hatte, habe ich mich auf den Weg zur Tauchbasis gemacht. Dort habe ich gleich meinen Diving Guide kennen gelernt – ein Aussie wie er im Buche steht! Sehr relaxt und total layed back! Nachdem ich meine Ausrüstung und ein kurzes Briefing bekommen hatte, ging’s auch schon los zum ersten Tauchgang – Ziel war Point X, nur etwa 50 Meter vom Ufer der Insel entfernt. Ich hatte Glück und war der einzige Taucher an diesem Tag ...

Today I started my dive trip to the Great Barrier reef. The ship is 100" long and designed for sailing in rough water.This trip takes you way up north and to the outer remote reefs called the Ribbon reefs and Osprey reef. Loaded the boat with with about 20 other divers from all over the world. Germany, Africa, Sweden, Figi, Canada and a few other places that I am forgetting right now. No dives today. We are on the move to get out there as far out as possible. We traveled all night.

Up at 530 to prep for the morning dives at the 3 sisters. Finally saw sharks, a lot of them!!! Lots of rays too! Had breakfast before another dive. The sun came out after that and it was HOT. Some lazing on the sun deck before snorkeling at manta ray bay. Good free diving there. Came face to face with a huge ...

... exam and we both passed. One of the German girls however managed to fail the 75% pass rate, which is quite an accomplishment as even a blind pig could have answered more questions correctly. The same girl had to do all the pool excerices at least three times before she got it and even then she still copied the instructors hand gestures that symbolized the excercise instead of doing the excercise itself! I have no hope at all ...

What a day. We took a kind of dive ferry that takes you out to the barrier reef and hooks up to a huge floating pontoon where you dive, snorkel, BBQ, sunbathe, mini sub &amp; helicopter. Very cool day. Once again........................perfect weather!<br>

... the Great Barrier Reef.<br><br>We packed up the car Saturday morning and drove straight to Cape Tribulation to arrive before noon. Took some time to set up the campsite, have a snack for lunch, then walk down to the beach to look for sea critters while the tide was out. We found some crabs but they were quick to bury themselves in the sand. We also came across a Nudi Branch, sea cucumber, and a lobster shell that was ...

... the wet season. it is thought to be the oldest surviving rainforest and possibly the birthplace for many of the world's rainforest plants. it also contains the world's highest density of mangrove tree species along the daintree river--19 out of 31 species in just one place! incredible! i was picked up by Jungle Tours at 7:30am and we made our way north first stopping in Port Douglas at the Rainforest Wildlife Sanctuary. i was a bit skeptical as ...

... local Ice Cream Factory where we had some fantastic ice cream out of local fruits and we also stopped at the fantastic Alexandra Lookout from where we had a great view over the park. The afternoon was spent at Mossman Gorge where a creek from the rainforest provided a little tranquil oasis with some small waterfalls. After the return to Port Douglas, we looked at the beach and walked around town, where we had a little snack at the harbour.

... private rooms and cooking facilities. As we found our house we couldn't help but notice the massive spider near the door! When I say it was around the size of my hand I am not over exaggerating! There was also a few smaller spiders, still big spiders but just smaller than the other one. Our room was nice except for the windows, it was basically a series of glass slates and were open when we got there. So the first thing I did was close them so nothing could get into the room and ...

... the floor, and the floor was only aboot 20m down. They took us to 3 different sites. I was dressed head to toe in a stinger suit (safety first again) which brought me back to my spiderman costume incident in Mexico a few years back (for those of you who know). I soon realized why the suits were so important though, the first site, there thousands of jellyfish everywhere in the water. They were aboot the size of a teacup, translucent, but with ...