Whitsundays (Sian)

A couple of weekends ago we flew north of Melbourne to Townsville in Queensland where we were greeted by Emma Larby and her friend Paul!!!
We stopped in Townsville for a night and then headed on a road trip to Airlie beach, stopping on our way at the Billabong Sanctuary where not only did we all get to hold a croccodile but cuddle a Koala!
Once in Airlie we boarded 'Wings,' for a 3 day, 2 night snorkelling and diving adventure around the beautiful Whitsunday Islands.
We'd been on the boat for a couple of hours when we were asked if we wanted to Dive, well, wanting to try anything once, all 4 of us readily agreed, and after 30 minutes of learning the signals and want to do if you loose your mask we were 5 meters below sea level wondering in amazement at the coral and fish! Now I thought Snorkelling was great and that you couldn't get better than that, but Diving is fabulous, I actually felt like I was a fish! We saw a huge Maori Wrasse called Elvis who was just hanging out getting cleaned by all the little fish! The weekend got better and better... We spent an afternoon in Whitehaven Beach, a beautiful soft silica sandy beach. We dived for a second time, going 12 meters down it was just magical, we even discovered that you can dance under water, Emma and Steve do a great rendition of 'Hammer Time'
And we got to swim with Turtles!
Check out the pictures for some idea of what we got up too... I'm sure we'll add some more soon!