Today was a free day for us as we weren't doing any trips so we had a lay in after the others had gone out and strolled down to breakfast about 9.30. Awesome. We ate at leisure and then took a walk down the promenade, round the harbour and to the shops and shopping mall. Was so nice to go at our own pace for a change. After Jade had made me do laps of the mall, we went back to the hotel to totally unpack our bags and sort them out, and do some washing. I'd lost m...

So today was our Great Barrier Reef trip and we set off at a reasonable time after breakfast. The boat was a big ish catamaran and erm, we all thought it was going to be smooth and calm. Wrong. I didn't feel that bad but some of our lot were ill. They missed the dolphins that were swimming a bit further out from the boat that I spotted. Took about an hour and a half to get out to the pontoon where everything was. Some went off diving, some snorkled, but I stuck t...