Lady Musgrave Island

Our one adventure was to take a boat over to the Great Barrier Reef to see... it.

The boat trip was quite long, of the order of 90 minutes or so, and Eloise did barf, allowing us to try out their nifty sickbags. Interestingly all the barfers were young girl-children. Maybe that's not actually interesting though.

Anyhow we arrived after a while to find a beautifully azure lagoon in the middle of the ocean, a circle of smooth water a couple of miles wide with a little island on one side, walled by coral coming almost up to the surface of the water.

The boat found a little channel through the wall and soon we were toddling over the smooth water which was something of a relief for those with no sea-legs.

The boat docked at a pontoon and in no time we were snorkelling and looking at all the little fishies and the corals and all that. Which was rather nice. Eloise after initial terror overcame her fears and was delighted by the spectacularly colourful wildlife and by the very act of snorkelling. Anne, after initial terror, remained reasonably terrified and was unable sufficiently engage her faculties to see anything. However she did manage to get out there, which was an achievement.

Later in the day Nicole and I sent scuba diving, even though it's been years and years and we didn't really have a clue what we were doing. However the dive wasn't deep and we got on fine. Actually it was really good fun. I'd forgotten how heavy those tanks are though.