http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania , Australia , Queensland , Great Barrier Reef en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:59:16 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:59:16 BST Turtles of the Great Barrier ReefGrade Third GradeStandard S3L2. Students will recognize the effects of pollution and humans on the environment.Objective Students will identify the effects of pollution on marine life.MaterialsProcedure1. Show general turtle video to spark excitement.2. Ask students what animals need to survive Food air water shelter3. Review different types of habitats http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-304426.html Turtles of the Great Barrier ReefGrade Second GradeStandard S2CS5. Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.Objective Students will describe animals in photos clearly.MaterialsProcedure1. Show the beginning of the general turtle video 5 minutes. Pause and blindfold half of the children. Resume video for another few minutes. Pause.2. Nonblindfolded students now http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-304425.html Turtles of the Great Barrier Reef ExpeditionGrade First GradeStandard S1CS3. Students will use tools and instruments for observing measuring and manipulating objects in scientific activities.Objective Students will use various nonstandard units of measurement to determine the best unit for measuring odd shaped objects.Materials Odd shaped objects for measuring such as plastic animals bal http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-304423.html Turtles of the Great Barrier ReefGrade KindergartenStandard SKCS6. Students will understand the important features of the process of scientific inquiry.Objective Students will identify scientific tools and ways scientists stay safe.Materials Safety videoGoggles rubber gloves lab coats shoes rulers measuring tape scales magnifiersDigital cameras one per teamComputer accessProcedur http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-304422.html hi everybodyafter some days of wasting myself in Cairns I finally decided to do a dive course. maybe because many of you my friends already done it... maybe because everybody says it is a must to see the great barrier reef... of course the reasonable price has helped when taking the decision... but predominantly i'll need the licence when diving on my travel in future. yes. i hope so.so I took http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-300835.html Did a day trip to the great barrier reef while i was up in cairns. Its just as spectacular as you might imagine. Also got the opertunity to do some scuba diving. Really go the bug for it now and hope to do a course sometime next year. Unfortunately didn't get any under water photos but i will next time. Tomorrow i do a bungy jump. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-295920.html Wednesday June 25thWe had to get up bright and early again. Today was the start of our five day learn to scuba course. The shuttle picked us up and took us to their retail shop in downtown Cairns. There we squared up all the remaining money met our instructor Nick and the other six people that would be in our class. From tehre we were shuttled to a small private pool. There we spent the rest of http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-293751.html While Simon was exploring deep dark wrecks near Sydney Lauren flew north to Townsville where she met her friend Sabrina who is studying there this semester. The dynamic duo of MSC 201 and University of Miami Science Diving reunited with a bang and had a night out on the town then got up at 5am to catch a bus to Cairns. Cairns is much more Australian feeling than Sydney with a relaxed and http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-287597.html So I just had to share with you some amazing photo's from sunrise over at Coconut Beach after setting off at 5am to climb a ruggid headland in the dark with no torch...which proved interesting to Sunset up at Cooks look ....We headed over to Coconut while the stars were still bright in the sky ....climbing the ruggid path we hit Lizard point just as the sun was heading up. After finding the r http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-284380.html Yesterday I did my Great Barrier Reef tour thanks to generous gift certificates because it's crazy expensive. It was an hour and half out to Moore Reef supposedly one of the better ones and then we spent the day out there. I did a semisub boat tour a glassbottomed boat tour looked through the underwater observation windows and the best part was SNORKLING I loved it felt just like be http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-279838.html Arrival In CairnsOur bus came in at 630am so after making it to Koala Hostel to claim a free night courtesy of our quiz win. We had a quick sleep before hitting the streets in search of tour operators to arrange some diving and a trip to Cape Tribulation. Once we had done this we headed for a walk around Cairns to get a taster of the place pretty nice town and got some tasty Mexican grub at http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-279823.html The Great Barrier Reef Today was a day that made the trip. I woke up early did not get up to see the sunrise on the beach like I planned but early enough to meet all the people coming back from the sunrise service for Anzac Day at the coffee shop while I was getting breakfast. 2.50 for a fresh made croissant with honey. Then we all met Mazz and Macca outside the hostel to walk together to the http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-278641.html A full day of diving turned out to be a half day of diving because... you guessed it andrew got sea sick... tossed all his breakfast up right after his second dive... oh well technically i only paid for 2 dives so all is good. Just a present for the reef to remember me by... I take pictures and leave cereal. Tulsa 5 thank you for the day and being so nice to me while throwing up on your boat... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-277449.html Well....I have always wanted to come to Aussie and here I am and one of the main reasons was to see the Great Barrier Reef I think of Oz I think of kangaroos bbq's good old barbie and the great barrier reef. Sooo...cheese as it sounds today really was a dream come true as we went on a diving trip to the reef. Three dives to be exact The Great Barrier reef covers a larger area than the whol http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-276102.html So it actually is a weekend not friday on a monday or saturday on a thursday but actually saturday the 10th May and we woke up to a cloudy drizzly day again very unmotivated so headed over chinamans to Watsons bay where for some reason today there were plenty of catamarans parked like cars in a carpark....... it was chilly which is very bizarre to say so we walked to the end of the beach where the http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-274736.html A very lazy morning ...waking up late ....crawling to the staff mess after a night of red wine and movies after work..eating lunch and a forseen day on the couch turned actually into quite an adventure...so firstly i shall introduce my fellow adventure buddy Chelsea..my work buddy and the adventure Queen ... we packed our Lizard backpacks and headed to the airstrip where we were fighting through http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-272419.html After a night of disturbed uneasy sleep thanks once more Shearwaters I woke up and suited up for an early snorkel. It didn't come to be however. The water was really rough the current was running swiftly the wind was strong and it had been raining all last night so the visibility was likely crap. I decided that I wasn't going to risk myself on my last day at Heron and instead headed b http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-267964.html After a night of disrupted sleep thank you Shearwaters I went for a postbreakfast snorkel with my buddy Rika. We headed out along the concrete wall that leads out towards the wreck that serves as Heron's breakwater it's not allowed to snorkel near the wreck or in the channel during the day as you'd be run over by a boat. We saw lots of wonderful fish as well as three big blacktip reef http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-267960.html We had an early breakfast and got ready for a reef walk. A reef walk basically involves putting on your watershoes and walking a path around the coral clumps out on the reef. At low tide you'll only be as deep as your knees but at high tide you'd be floating over the reef there were great low tides when we were at Heron good for us not as pleasant for the corals who would get exposedthey http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-267949.html First day at the Reef and I'm pooped. The bus trip was very long and uncomfortable because the coach wasn't meant for long travel the seats didn't recline and there were no reading lights. I basically slept in about 5 or 6 different positions only to wake up briefly when we stopped for stretchpee breaks for which I promptly went back to sleep again. Sleeping was awkward and left me achey. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-267931.html Nicky Hello all well after the excitement of last weekend we have had a great week travelling through the Tablelands which is an area west of cairns. Considering we have never done this whole travelling thing before I think we have done really well at timing our arrival in Cairns. We had just enough time to book a trip to the great barrier reef to do some snorkelling. I think it is one of my f http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-265892.html Again the GREAT Barrier ReefHow wonderful is that We explain our second trip to the Great Barrier Reef from Cape Tribulation just like it was in the advertisementEnjoy an awesome day in the sun and experience the wonderful live of the ReefDuring the way out to the inner reef our cool nice crew will give you information about the Reef their inhabitants and also some tips where to find interest http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-263985.html After a few hiccups we collected our campervan from Cairns headed straight for Port Douglas. This was to be the hub for our activities over the next few days. Being the closest town to the Great Barrier Reef it is easy to know what Port Douglas is famous for This pretty little village caters well for the many tourists campervans. It is located at one end of a four mile beach. On our fir http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-258199.html Hallo ihr Lieben heute erzaehl ich euch was vom sehr bekannten und noch viel schoeneren Great Barrier Reef das hab ich naemlich besuchtIch hab einen Tagesausflug gebucht gehabt um 730 in der Frueh gings los. Um von Cairns ans Reef zu kommen muss man schon mal eine 2stuendige Fahrt auf sich nehmen die war ganz schoen wackelig und hat so einige meiner MitPassagiere ein bisschen seasick http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-254687.html My last weekend in Melbourne before flying to Cairns was heaps fun The Friday after classes got out Sam and I went to Melbourne's Brighton Beach which is famous for their bright colorful beach boxes that people own with views of downtown Melbourne. If and when they go for sale you can purchase this little square box for about 250000 That night we met up with some of my friends I met http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-245838.html Green Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef and is a protected Marine Park. Green Island is a coral cay readily identified from the air by its emerald rainforest surrounded by white sandy beaches and coral reefs.Reefs have been sadly damaged by the last cyclone and the waves of tourists.Took a submarine tour and was almost seasick as hell Like everyone elseVisited Marineland Melanesia's n http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-245682.html Hey everyone we've done quite a bit since our last blog so here goes....We tore ourselves away from our beloved Melbourne we've both decided that we absolutely have to go back because it's so awesome. On our last couple of days we chilled out in the Botanic Gardens went to the Ian Potter Centre for Aussie Art and went to the Museum v. sadly the Neighbours set had been taken away So with a s http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-245345.html Efter en lang tur op ad kysten s vi frem til at par dage p revet. Vi havde kbt en tur hvor vi skulle overnatte p bden ude p det ydre rev med 7 snorkel ture p turen. Det var en fantastisk tur som vi virkelig nd. Alene det at slappe af ombord p bden og blot nyde vejret ude p havet. Det var mgvejr i Cairns men som snart vi nede ud p havet klarede det op og blev super vejr. Bespisning http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-244933.html So the beautiful Heron Island has come to an end and more of australia needs to be explored before moving onto New Zealand for a month My last week spent with my brother snorkelling the beautiful waters with turtles all sizes ...mantarays...sting rays...fish of every shape size and colour and to top it all off a fantastic helicopter ride off the island.......After a crazy christmas and new yea http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-241784.html Big Bubbles no Troulbes......oder wie klein ist die Welt Nach den hitzigen Temperaturen im Landesinneren haben wir uns eine Woche auf Hoher See vergoennt genauergesagt waren wir mit einem Tauchboot am Great Barrier Reef unterwegs.....tja und was kann man da mehr sagen als am besten die Bilder samt Meeresbewohner fuer sich selbst sprechen lassen.Die Wettergoetter waren uns diesesmal leider nic http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Great-Barrier-Reef/blog-240192.html