http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania , Australia , Queensland , Cairns , open water en-us Sat, 12 Dec 09 10:42:45 +0000 Sat, 12 Dec 09 10:42:45 +0000 Fom the Whitsundays we drove up the cost to Cairns and from there took the Osprey V to snorkel on the outer reef. Once again we swathed ourselves in revealing royal blue lycra stinger suits and ventured into the Pacific Ocean. Told we had five hours of snorkel time in two different locations I thought the time on the boat might drag a little but there was so much to see in the water that the time http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-458300.html Das ist bislang unser zweiter Trip zum Great Barrier Reef nach den Whitsundays. Diesmal gings zum ueren Great Barrier Reef wo das Korallenriff und die Rifffische wesentlich farbenprchtiger waren. Inkludiert waren neben Essen und Getrnken auch ein Tauchgang bzw. eine gefhrte Schnorcheltour sowie eine Fahrt mit dem Glassbodenboot Kosten 165 pp. Da es beim letzten Tauchausflug Probleme mit http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-455712.html I cannot believe it has been two whole months since I updated the grand old travel blog but a significant amount of time was spent without reliable internet not from lack of love for writing about it all. Darwin was hot and sweaty and I enjoyed it immensely. You can smoke in pubs airports and for all I know... child care centres. laughs A very shallow reason to love a place maybe but as a smo http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-451318.html Hi dutchyrsquosAlles goed daar in dat kleine land hier ver vandaanDe afgelopen week heb ik iets ongelofelijk moois gedaan. Iets wat ik al een tijdje wilde doen maar niet wist of het echt wel wat voor mij zou zijn aangezien ik totaal geen watermens ben.Ruim 2 weken geleden toch maar de knoop doorgehakt. En mij online aangemeld voor de 5 daagse Padi Open water Diver Course.Op Vrijdag de 16e beg http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-446854.html Whatrsquoll you do with a drunken sailor Whatrsquoll you do with a drunken sailor Whatrsquoll you do with a drunken sailor early in the morning. Put him in the tender till he gets sober Put him in the tender till he gets sober Put him in the tender till he gets sober early in the morning Hi ho and up she rises Hi ho and up she rises Hi ho and up she rises early in the morning... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-442595.html Ende August hab ich nach dreieinhalb monaten vier festivals und ungefaehr 50 arbeitstagen mit arbeiten aufgehoert und bin wieder nach cairns groeesste stadt im norden queenslands und touristisches zentrum fuers great barrier reef gefahren.dort angekommen hab ich hab ich sofort mein open water dive course und advanced course tauchschein und fortgeschrittenenkurzangefangen.der kurz besteht aus http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-434733.html Tuesday we woke up fairly early to go snorkeling. The boat first took us to White Haven beach on Whitsunday Island. This beach was rated the most beautiful beach in the world. It has the whitest sand which if you get caught stealing any itrsquos a 40000 fine. Everyone took pictures splashed around in the bluest water Irsquove seen and laid out on the sand. After about an hour we headed t http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-423351.html We went on two reef trips very different. The first was a small boat a refurbished pearllugger built in 1954 with 13 passengers and a crew of 6. The second was a larger faster boat built for reef trips with 120 passengers and a crew of 6.The first trip was on the 28th. The boat goes to the inner reef where both coral and fish are not as impressive. Jershon and I signed up for the introd http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-414437.html What an awesome 5 daysIt started on Friday 7am pick up to start my Open water scuba course to get me qualified in the open water aka THE GREAT BARRIER REEF. Two days of theory classroom work later won't bore you all with that bit then Sunday arrived. 0615 Hostel pick up then to dive shop to pick up scuba gear then to the boat. 3 days 2 nights. We were on board by 9am a quick bite to ea http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-411390.html hallo deutschlandwillkommen zum naechsten lagebericht aus ozeanien genauer gesagt cairns in queensland. puuuuh wenn das mal nicht eine lange fahrt war. wir sind nach 5 tagen gemuetlicher autofahrt und ca. 3100km nun doch heil in cairns angekommen.jaja nach anderthalb wochen darwin ging es jetzt weiter. ich hatte euch ja schon gesagt wie unser auto aussehen wuerde und so kam es auch lach to http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-409669.html LAURA Today was an early start as we were picked up at 7am to go on a tour with Reef Encounter. Cairns is the closest access point to the worlds largest marine park and one of the natural wonders of the world. It consists of over 6600 different species of fish coral and molluscs in the 344000 square kilometres of reef. Today we will visit just 2 of the 3000 reefsWe boarded the large modern ca http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-388894.html Hello I know it's been a while but I didn't really have much to say while I was Perth but now we're back on the move I have plenty to talk aboutWe got into a very rainy Sydney last week which made a bit of a change to the 40 degree sunshine we'd been getting in Perth. Getting back to staying in a hostel again also took some getting used to. I wish I had gotten used to it sooner than I did then http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-382126.html Hello lovers of travelling best job in the worldI want to come back to AustraliaI am Captain OlsenRen and i am inmersed in a new adventure but to get it i need your help. I would like to go to Hamilton Island in Queensland and the easiest way to do it is by voting me in this link You will watch my video appliance.httpwww.islandreefjob.comapplicantswatch8B7ZmLu4vjgI hope you like it .K http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-371209.html Comme mentionne dans le teste precedent ou suivant voici quelques photos de nos plongees 'down under' dans la grande barriere de corails. Faut absolument que vous regardiez le video de la tortue... c'est MALADE Honnetement les photos sont bonnes mais representent a peu pres 5 de ce que l'on a vraiment vu sous l'eau. Le case a camera est enorme a trainer les poissons bougent vite donc http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-366851.html As wonderful and exciting as the City of Sydney our trip to Australia was highlighted by our trek up to Queensland and the Port Douglas area to visit the Great Barrier Reef. It is the largest reef system in the world 2900 individual reefs and 900 islands that stretch over 1600 miles and 133000 square miles. The reef is naturally located in the Coral Sea and as we have been reminded numero http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-366129.html Wow What a day . . .Started off on old sailing boat called Lalla at 830 and sailed out about 21 miles to the reef from Cairns centre. Crew were a good laugh and there was a good crowd from all over the world on board all excited about seeing the reef . . especially the French and Japanese once we got out to the reef the Japanese couldn't stop taking photos and jumping round and all the Fre http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-364492.html Von meinem hart verdienten Geld hab ich mir einen 5tgigen Tauchkurs gegnnt D Habe ich erwhnt das der Job also Schmuckverkaufen so hart war dass ich an einem Tag 200 Seiten in meinem Buch gelesen habeDas Tauchen war total super meine Gruppe alles Deutsche war sehr witzig und die 3Tage die wir auf einem Boot gelebt haben waren der Hammer. Wir wurden in aller herrgottsfrhe geweckt um http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-354832.html We booked our dive trip with Deep Sea Divers Den based on recommendations made by Frank's dive master Terry and also because they hold a 5star PADI rating. As we found out late in our planning process the best way to experience the Great Barrier Reef is to plan liveaboards where you go 24 hours out to sea and live aboard a large hotellike vessel that is fully equipped with all the dive ge http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-349480.html Happy Thanksgiving yesterday but itrsquod be today for the folks back home in the USA.So after last nightrsquos late night with the crew we thought waking up at 550 am would make for a rough early morning SCUBA dive. After dragging ourselves out of bed and brushing our teeth we set off for the sun deck for our morning dive briefing. Barely half of the crew was awake to assist but it w http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-349468.html Since leaving Noosa Heads we continued our voyage North stopping at 1770. We anticipated staying there for a couple of days but upon our arrival it was a dismal town with nothing to offer but a beach. We have seen so many beaches on our travels North that it was just not enough of a selling point for us to stay more than a night. The next morning we continued our journey and wound up in a plac http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-349386.html