Manta Ray Trip, Coral Bay

March 26th 2006
Since I last wrote about Merve, the enormous Queensland Grouper fish, we have had a number of other encounters with big wildlife here. The first was a few days ago in Coral Bay. We did the manta ray trip where they send a spotter plane up and lead the boat to the mantas, and then you get to jump in and snorkel with them. The day we booked for the trip turned out to have a few minuses against i ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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Sharon and Scott

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Scott and I have always been travellers at heart. We first met on the beach in Spain in 1995 and had what we thought was "just a holiday romance". We met again briefly a year later in Salzburg, Austria and then a few years later in Hawaii. At the time, I was working in Japan, and Scott was back in California after his two years in Barcelona, Spain. Together, we have left it all behind to backpack around the world, not once, not twice, but three times. Travel really is addictive! Each time, we'd quit our jobs, put our meager belongings into storage or sell what was too big to store, leave o... full info

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