Lizard Island and the Great Barrier Reef

This was by far the best part of the trip for me, notwithstanding the fact that we had to fly to Lizard Island in a teeny-weeny 6 seater plane. The Island is north of Cairns. Rob, of course, was ecstatic.
These Lizards were all over the place
This is a view from our room.

This is my sea monster



We don't have any pictures of underwater, but that's where we were for 3 days. The island resort is built for only 80 guests, and there were only 40 there at the time -- it was like being on an uninhabited island. You could take a boat out anytime and find an empty beach and just hang out there.

We were water rats -- the diving and snorkeling was as good as everyone says it is. You could literally walk off the beach and into beautiful coral and gorgeous colorful fish. We saw huge sea turtles and clam shells big enough to be bean bags. On one day, we did a dive trip and Rob went down to the ocean floor to pet the cod fish. He saw sharks and I saw a sting ray.

I had to be dragged kicking and screaming off of Lizard Island.

Our next and last stop was the Gold Coast.