I aint doing no snorkellin' fool!

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December 17th 2005

Published: December 30th 2005

OK, so before I start with the story, I'd just like to mention a bit about the title. Because there are so many gorgeous beaches here, and the water is teaming with wildlife, everyone encourages you to go snorkelling. However. I'd like to advise that at no point during our trip, will I be doing any sort of swimming in the open sea or snorkelling, due to my incredible ''might be sharks in the w... Read Full Entry

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Al, Shaz & Beth

Eggs on Legs

Hullo!! We did a big fat trip a wee while ago covering Bonnie Scotland (our home), France, Spain, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and China. Then we came home and had a lovely baby girl called Beth and Alan went back to work. Beth is 14 months old now (I know - where does the time go??) and we haven't been anywhere exotic for yonks. Consequently we are now 'dormant bloggers' which makes us feel a bit dreary, so we better get our skates on and find some good places to visit and report on pronto!!.................... full info

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Our wee pal Tommy Turtle comes up to say hello.

And then he pops back down below!

Alan gets all arty farty.

This rusty chair was sitting in the middle of nowhere at Hamelin Bay.

Kayaks on the beach at Monkey Mia

Floating Oyster Farm at Monkey Mia

They farm for black pearls at MM. You can do this trip thing where you go out to the farm, work for a few hours helping them bring in the nets etc then you get to spend the rest of the day watching the workers do their thang. At the end of the day they give you a black pearl to take home. We didnt do this, but the two girls we shared with did and they loved it.

Mrs McCabe and the Pelicans

Such big birds, and they just hung around the beach all day.

Captain Alan takes to the helm on our own personal glass bottom boat.

Notice he's got rid of those crap specs now and he has his fashionable ones on again.

Shaz gets a go at the wheel. It looks like she's pouring wine.

Our glass bottom boat.

We saw bugger all fish,but it was good fun diching around for an hour or so.

Shaz loves it here!

...and so does Alan.

Check the colour of the sand. It was pink in parts.

Shell beach

This is a beach made entirely of small shells.

Shell bricks.

There is a shell quarry in Shark Bay where they dig up compacted shells to use for building bricks. This is near a place called Hamelin Bay.

24th December 2005

Morv
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Merry Xmas!
Looks amazing...I will think of the sun as we attempt some beach walks all wrapped up braving the good scottish weather in Barra over the new year!

24th December 2005

Amanda
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Merry Christmas
The photos look amazing - the only White Christmas you will be having is from the sand!! Have a very merry christmas and a wonderful new year. Awrabest for 2006.

26th December 2005

Sara
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Happy Christmas x
Hey you 2 - thinking of you both right now, and hoping you had a great Christmas Day in the sunshine. BTW Bundaberg sounds MAGIC!

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