Coral Rock Hotel

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... I was lucky enough to see a blue (yes blue) jellyfish, a big sting ray as well as the usual assortment of soft coral and smaller fish. I returned to land to find the power working but the credit card machine broken, however the cash machine was fixed ...

... up on lunch bits we headed to the Venetian Pool, only a 5 minute drive from the town. The Venetian pool was formed from a coral rock quarry in 1923, its fed with cool spring water daily and holds 820000 gallons of water. Its quite something and im not ...

... under a big awning, they went  as far as the eye could see.  It was so beautiful! We arrived at Coral Rock Hotel, a hotel/hostel run by a lovely South African named Neil.  The place was all inclusive and clearly designed for ...

... it was a bit far off shore for me with my level of competence in swimming.  Larry Start Coral Bay is small, just two caravan parks, one hotel, two small groups of shops and a jetty, boat ramp.  It has not much other accommodation for ...

... their answering machine, but weren't sure as they didn't mention their name on the machine's message.  Arriving in Cape Coral we wandered around a shopping centre to kill some time and tried their number again.  Rick left another vague message ...

... reef and small fish, I saw a sea snake or eel in my peripheral vision and later we came across a huge turtle resting among the coral getting it’s shell cleaned by, um, shell cleaning fish, there was also a large bat fish (its big and black) kind of ...

... reef and small fish, I saw a sea snake or eel in my peripheral vision and later we came across a huge turtle resting among the coral getting it’s shell cleaned by, um, shell cleaning fish, there was also a large bat fish (its big and black) kind of ...

... be booked solid!! Everyone is down shopping up a storm.  So we payed too much our first night and found a sweet place called Hotel Lisboa the next day, Lisboa being a *very* popular ladies name down here.  We didn ´t manage too much that day ...

... , the Azure Window and then for a boat trip through the Inland Sea and round pass the Azure Window passing through caves lined with coral, a rock that looked like it was smiling and a rock that looked like it had a crocodile sitting on top of it. Thursday ...

... arrived at the carousel before we did which is a first and the apartment is only 2 clicks from the airport so we were at the hotel about 20 mins after landing, must be a record. Sadly Cairns is cloudy but at last we can dig out the shorts and flip flops. ...

... about 20 km long and 9 km wide.   The western side of the island is lined with sandy beaches and an offshore coral reef which creates a large lagoon. The eastern shore is composed primarily of rugged rocky cliffs and a reef. Its highest point is ...

... we crossed the Great Dividing Range -- the mointains separating the dry inland from the rainforest and the eastern coast alongside the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. Cairns is one of fastest growing areas of Australia.  It is narrow but sprawling in ...

... fashion by many passers-by as they headed down Victoria Parade towards Thurston Gardens. Opposite the Thurston Gardens is the Pacific Palace Hotel. This is like something out of a Poirot/Miss Marple novel and would have been very grandiose in its day. It ...

... .. which we tried to capture through our lens.. but it's nothing compared to the real deal la.. Coral Bay was a little of a disappointment.. the sand was really comparable to, or maybe worse than, ...

... the rock.  We swam through a chimney within the rock, but there was nothing impressive inside or outside of it.  The coral wasn’t particularly colorful, there were not many fish compared to most of my other dives, and the ones we saw were ...

... Scallywags which is exactly what the Fish salesman who told me Coral Trout is local and fresh is, because shortly after, I had food poisening. (Coral trout is not local to lombok) I stopped at the internet and if you read my last few tags for the photos ...

... get what you pay for." In other words, for a $9 boat ride, we got "snorkeling" in murky water with garbage bags instead of coral reefs. We splashed around in inner tubes that were actually old tires. We visited a "floating bar" that was one of these inner ...

... , though not spectacular, mountains, which we skirted to the west before reaching the coast and heading east. The coastline has a coral rock fringe dropping straight into deep water, with only the occasional beach where a river runs in. The water didn't ...

... became more and more exposed each minute.  By the time lunch was over, the tide had gone down several meters and pink coral rock ringed the island on three sides, extending for a kilometer on one side.  We gingerly walked around the island on ...

... PC and connect your laptop, only ... it hardly ever works. When Dr T finally gets on the web, the day before our departure, my Hard Rock Hotel in Kuta is fully booked for the coming 3 nights: it IS a party city and a party hotel and it is weekend! So, we ...