Capricorn Coast

Trip Start Mar 28, 2009
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Trip End Jun 04, 2009


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Monday, May 11, 2009

We drove up to the Town of 1770 to do some SCUBA diving on the Great Barrier Reef.  There was only one real dive boat operating and it was going to a shipwreck dive.  We went on that and it turned out to be awesome.  There were sharks, huge bull rays (15 feet wide), sea snakes, turtles, lots of tropical fish, huge grouper, lobster, etc.  We even swam through the wheelhouse of the ship.  The sea was rough and Sandi got seasick on the boat.  Other than that is was a great dive.  We looked into Lady Elliot Island, but it is $1,200 dollars for 2 days and they couldn't even tell us how the diving conditions were.  Therefore we bailed on that.

We met some really fun British people in the campground.  They were working in Australia for 2 years.  They went on extensively about working in the Yellowtail winery.  It is funny that Australias migrant workers are young British people.  We need to look into this for the US a little.

We tried to go diving near Bundaberg, but this also failed due to rough seas.  We decided to head back closer to Brisbane.  We went to the Australian Zoo, which is the zoo that Steve Irwin used to run.  It is a really cool zoo.  you can feed and pet kangaroos and wallabies.  You can pet koalas.  They do really cool shows with crocodiles, birds, snakes, etc.  Our favorite was the tasmanian devils.  They just run around their habitats constantly.  We went to a talk about them that was really cool.  The zookeeper held one of them in her arms and it makes the funny growling noise that sounds like it is really angry.  The one she was showing us kept trying to hide its head under her arm and would try to climb up her when she was on the ground.  The tragic part is that they are dying off due to a contagious facial cancer.  They transmit it by biting each other's faces.  They get really bad facial tumors and it's 100% fatal.
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