*October 25 - 27 Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef live aboard dive boat trip *October 27 Cairns *October 28 Day trip out of Port Douglas, Queensland - diving on the Great Barrier reef I flew up to Cairns from Melbourne on Wednesday night. Early the next day I left on a two day dive trip to the Great Barrier reef with Deep Sea Divers Den. The diving was beautiful, especially the last two dives at a site called Troppos on Norman Reef. The weather was absolutely perfect, virtually no waves, little current, great visibility, warm water, and lots of sun! It still wasn't as wonderful as the diving at Sipidan in Borneo, but I think that set such a high standard that is virtually impossible to top. On the first dives I noticed a
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