we left sydney last tuesday and flew to airlie beach, queensland where our boat, the Anaconda III, was waiting to take us on a 3 day/3 night sailing trip of the whitsunday islands including diving/snorkeling on the outer reef of the great barrier reef!
on tuesday evening we were greeted by our friendly crew with champagne and set out for a nighttime cruise to our first destination. some little known facts about life on a sailboat:
1. No bananas allowed; they are bad luck on boats.
2. Showers are to be one minute per person per day or we have to go back to shore.
3. Seasickness gets scored on a) colour b) distance c) taking others down with you.
while there were some definite rough patches, and in aimee's case, some definite rough patches, both of us managed to keep our stomach contents in our stomachs in spite of some rough (well maybe not that rough) seas.
over the 3 days, our itinerary included:
a visit to beautiful whitehaven beach though our visit came with rain, we still enjoyed the delicate, white sand, in fact, the whitest in the world as it is composed of 99% silica.
since the weather was crappy near shore, we left the rainy islands behind and sailed into the coral sea, where it was sunny, for our first dive/snorkel at the great barrier reef. the first dive was at sunset and the marine life was astounding. while aimee stuck to snorkeling, chris did his first scuba dive and enjoyed it.
chris riding the tender back to the boat after his first dive.
where's aimee? (level of difficulty = extremely easy)
who knew sailing a 101 ft boat would be so easy?
the great barrier reef in the background...
i was told there would be no work...
1 comment:
No Bananas...weird!! I wonder how they figured that one out?!?
1 minute showers?!!? EEK!!!
Beautiful pictures!
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