Nemo successfully located

You can't really come to Cairns and not go to the Great Barrier Reef, so we did. And it was amazing. Maybe some of the impact was lost by the fact that we'd seen some coral reefs last week in the Whitsundays, but the view at the Hastings Reef was far more impressive. The water was clearer, the colours of the corals were brighter, and we saw Nemo, star of the Disney film 'Finding Nemo'. This fish is a clown fish. We saw two of them down there, hiding amongst the anemones.

Sadly, as you might expect from recent posts, it was raining, and also quite windy. This meant that the waters were a bit choppy where we were, and I felt seasick for most of the day. It also meant that we couldn't go to the Breaking Patches, another area of the Reef we were scheduled to visit as it was too dangerous. There were supposed to be lots of turtles in that area, so we missed out on those, but it was still a good trip and the Great Barrier Reef lived up to all the hype!

We are now at the end of the Australian leg of the tour, and we finished off in style, by seeing the Big Captain Cook and then having a barbeque (I mean an outdoor gas hotplate). New Zealand next.