Exciting news everyone, in one week exactly I’ll be boarding a plane back to Australia! And no, I’m not getting deported from New Zealand as I originally feared, rather I am embarking on an awesome new adventure in Tropical North Queensland, one of my favorite regions!
I can’t wait!
But more on that later, while I have been getting ready I found myself reminiscing about the first time I was in the Whitsundays, and I realized I haven’t even told the full story of my favorite activity on my blog. For shame!
I don’t know how it happened but by the time we arrived at the Reefworld pontoon on the reef, a floating barge where all of the activities are based from, it was blue skies, sunshine and calm seas. How does that happen?
The afternoon was amazing, I started out with a massage on the top deck, had a fab seafood lunch before catching a little boat over to a floating dock where I got to take a helicopter flight over the reef. Trust me, if you splurge on something, it should be that. Getting to see the reef from the skies is unforgettable.
Especially as there is even a little reef shaped like a heart. Cheesy as hell but who cares?
Of course I spent as much time in the water as I could, how could you not when it’s clear blue and glows turquoise? I did my very first intro scuba dive, which got me totally hooked and inspired me to come back a few months later and get my PADI open water in the Whitsundays.
As the often wore on, all of the day-trippers headed back to land leaving me, the crew and two other women to spend the night out on the reef. We had the place to ourselves, it was amazing!
After a fab dinner with a beautiful sunset, we tucked into our swags early to gaze at the stars. Swags are single-man tents on the roof of the pontoon. Of course as soon as I fell asleep with it wide open, it poured rain, luckily stopping after a little while leaving us to count stars under a clear night sky with the sound of the ocean lapping at the side of the pontoon.
