Day five dawned and we went back to sleep. It was, after all, a bit of a novelty – we weren’t swaying and no one back banged on our door. The downside – no one was making breakfast. So we eventually crawled out of bed, walked into town and had some breakfast. One nicety of [...]
Archive for July, 2005
Travels – Day Four
Day four started with a shock as we were woken up before 0600. We had three dives to do and until midday to do them, so we were in the water by 0630. This was off to the north of the previous dive and was lovely – lots of fish and a turtle, although the [...]
Travels – Day Three
The next day we awake at a slightly more reasonable time and were in the water by 0730. We moved to the other end of the reef and so had a new bombora to explore which turned out to be lovely. We took the camera again and were well rewarded when we came across a [...]
Travels – Day Six
Day six dawned with us waking before the alarm – again, a novelty, but handy as we had to finish packing and get checked out. We finished with 45 minutes to spare and twiddled our thumbs and watched the rain until our pickup. We then ended up with even more time to spare as Cairns’ [...]
Travels – Day One
Some fool had booked our flight out of Auckland at the ungodly hour of 0650. This, of course, meant an even more ungodly hour of rising, Being the fool in question there was little sympathy in it for me, especially from our ‘volunteer’ driver. However we found we were not alone, as after arriving at [...]
