A little less brief, from Coolum Beach

Well, we're whiling away our final days at Coolum Beach. Kev has not been feeling all that well (I had a day of it too) and so we've spent a lot of time hanging out in the car with all the doors open for a breeze. I have been through two books and we are sure that our neighbours are sick of seeing us tromp back and forth to the bathroom in bathing suits. I've got clothes on today.

Anyways, since we last left off, Kev and I booked a dive in the Town of 1770, southernmost access to the Great Barrier Reef. The day before Kev surfed while Rose took pictures and tried to dry a tent that was flapping its way along the beach, most definitely annoying anyone in the vicinity. The next day, the dive was cancelled but we jumped on a tour trip to a different spot, Lady Musgrave, a trip for which diving was an add on. It was a huge boat, quite well loaded and very well prepared for seasickness - with good reason. Kev spent his time at the back, while I stayed up top and made good use of their seasick preparedness plan. It was great, under the circumstances. On arrival, we had a little snack and were taken out onto the water. Just before our dive, the guide spotted a 9 foot tiger shark right by the boat, something she hadn't seen in her 4 years there. Great. She assured us we were going down elsewhere. The dive itself was quite good, we saw a little reef shark and 3 turtles which look so incredibly chilled out as they swim. The coral was good too.

We got back and I felt sick more or less immediately. After some recovery time and lunch, Kev had a tour on a glass bottomed boat then we both went snorkelling in the island's coral lagoon. It was pretty incredible - the highlight being Kev swimming over a turtle. All things considered it was a very cool day.

Turtles dominated those few days as we also visited a turtle rookery and got to watch a turtle lay her eggs, cover them and return to see. We later relocated them because apparently, she left them too low. They are very cool to watch and hopefully don't mind us too much, even as they cry salty tears.

We since drove down to Coolum Beach and have not been up to much. Just trying to stretch out our last few days before returning home. From sand to piles of snow from what I understand.