Brash's trip up North

[Brash22]

Well, back in March me and the good lady took a trip up North.

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So we jumped on one of QANTAS's finest big steel birds and headed out from our home in Adelaide up to Sydney then to Cairns. From there, we drove up to Port Douglas, which is about an hour further North.

First day there, we went for a cruise and snorkel along the Great Barrier Reef

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This was our ride for the day
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Pics from Low Isles, named by Capt. James Cook, and part of the GBR

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The island itself

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Went for a little cruise in a glass bottomed boat, this is as good as the pics get. Just lots of turtles

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From that boat we went snorkelling, but I didn't take the camera down there. Snorkelling was fantastic, those who have seen Finding Nemo will know exactly what it looks like, since that's what it's like.

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Another view of the Low Isles

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The other direction, standing the same place as the previous shot

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Sign above the door of the pub next door

FISHES!
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Daintree river

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Rainforest

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Then it rained :frown:
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Later we went and watched the cane toad racing
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Where does that waterfall go?

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The aptly named 8 Mile Beach

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The Skyrail. Pics from that in a sec

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From inside the Skyrail car
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Well that's it, a brief overview of our trip up north. Questions?

[bdizzel124]

Extreemly Beautiful man, Wish i could go, Reminds me of Newfoundland, nothing but nature

Sea turtle FTW!!!!!!sea turtle are endangered and you saw alot of them so nice. Is it spawing seaon for them or do they just like to hang out in the shallow reef areas?

[Irish Luder]

nice pics, thats some savage scenery :cool:

[rc114]

Wow! I need to start traveling before I get married and have kids! Great pics! Make me want to go there! Nice a scenery! Looked liked a blast.

[LudeLove99]

Dang I always imagined austrailia to be like a desert full with kangaroos lol thats really nice scenery though. great pics!

[nakedchinchilla]

that place looks so beautiful

[Brash22]

Extreemly Beautiful man, Wish i could go, Reminds me of Newfoundland, nothing but nature

Sea turtle FTW!!!!!!sea turtle are endangered and you saw alot of them so nice. Is it spawing seaon for them or do they just like to hang out in the shallow reef areas?

I think it was spawning season, this was back in March. And the big sea turtles are known for returning to the same beach they were born at to lay their eggs. Even though they probably haven't been to that beach for 50 odd years.

Dang I always imagined austrailia to be like a desert full with kangaroos lol thats really nice scenery though. great pics!

That's what it's like in the middle. Everywhere else is like this.

[twokexlv6coupe]

absolutely stunning Colin. i too imagined it just as desolate dessert.

the pic of the waterfall from inside the skyrail makes me wanna go white water rafting :biggrin:

[Brash22]

We were meant to go white water rafting on that, well a little further upstream than that. But because of the huge amount of rain they'd had the company that was running it ruled it too dangerous, so refunded our deposit.

[bdizzel124]

I think it was spawning season, this was back in March. And the big sea turtles are known for returning to the same beach they were born at to lay their eggs. Even though they probably haven't been to that beach for 50 odd years.



That's what it's like in the middle. Everywhere else is like this.


Yeah i live 10 min from the ocean and i know how it gets, Man your lucky, Turtles are one of my fav animals, Yeah the sea turtles you saw were prob hachlines getting read to hit the big sea, They get huge thou and yes the do go back to the same beach, each spawn. Do you have any other pic to the turtles?
Still impressed on how amazing aussi is, and i know you guys can party also
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[OEM~KaOs]

Snorkeling and Diving the Great Barrier FTMFW!!

I could not believe how amazingly beautiful it was down there, and the visibility was ridiculous when I was there - I believe close to 150 feet

[Mdtdnb]

simply amazing Colin.....i'd love to go there some day to see that for myself.

[steve_o]

damn that is a beautiful place and thats sick that you live in austraila