Green Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

... job posting board. We found a posting looking for "Hosties" on the Reef Encounter. Hence, our next destination...the Great Barrier Reef! On Tuesday, August 26th, we dragged ourselves and our backpacks down to the marina at the Esplanade and boarded the ...

Ok, so we've been too busy travelling and just a little bit lazy! Here's a few pictures of the trip. More on this later...

We loved our reef trip so much that we did another one today. We took a cruise out to Green Island, just 45 minutes off the coast of Cairns. It was absolutely beautiful, clear, sunny, 28C. Couldn't ask for better weather. We had a much more relaxing ...

... that if you swim off its shores just a bit, you will find yourself swimming in one of the Seven Natural Wonders, The Great Barrier Reef. This was definitely a cool experience, although we were unable to find Nemo :) While I am a bit too much of a chicken ...