{"id":14,"date":"2006-03-31T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2008-10-13T00:32:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T23:32:09","slug":"great-barrier-reef-march-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/reports\/great-barrier-reef-march-2006","title":{"rendered":"Great Barrier Reef, March 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

… Over in Oz to see Marcus and Kylie get married.<\/p>\n

Started off with a couple of days in Singapore. I really like this city. We did the night safari at the zoo, and took the cable car to Sentosa Island<\/a><\/p>\n

Then to Tassie …<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"..little
\n\u2026 a little Devil<\/a><\/td>\n		\"..Koala\"
\n\u2026 Koala<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"..'Roos\"
\n\u2026 \u2018Roos<\/a><\/td>\n		\"..'Roos\"
\n\u2026 more Roos<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"..'Roo\"
\n\u2026 another ‘Roo<\/a><\/td>\n		\"..'Roo\"
\n\u2026 no point exerting yourself<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"..little
\n\u2026 and another little Devil
\n<\/a><\/td>\n		\"..Wombat\"
\nWombat<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Stopped off at the GBR on the way back.
\nUnfortunately … Tropical Cyclone Larry hit that part of the coast as we were supposed to fly in, so we ended up trying to get a place in Melbourne in as the Commonwealth Games were on …<\/p>\n

Excellent liveaboard (“SpoilSport”) with Mike Ball<\/a>.
\nThis was the 4-night cruise, with a flight back from Lizard Island over the Coral Sea. Well, OK, it got a bit choppy at times, but we did pick the rainy season.
\nI was using mostly rental gear (because of airline weight constraints). Don’t expect too many tanks with DIN fittings here. I did most of my diving in a vest, with a couple in my 3mm wetsuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"SpoilSport\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"SpoilSport\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Coral<\/a><\/td>\n\"Coral<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Flight<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Then we finally go to stay a few days at the wonderful Peninsula Hotel<\/a> in Port Douglas. Highly recommended – super accomodation, and really friendly people.<\/p>\n

Dayboat diving with Poseidon<\/a>. I’m sure they were good, but this was really geared for brand-new divers and snorkellers – max depth 18m, 40 min dive time, 3 dives – a bit of a let-down after the liveaboard.
\nAnd – as it was Stinger season, we had to wear the silly suits (didn’t see any jellies).<\/p>\n

Booked through Trailfinders<\/a>, although the Tas accommodation and the liveaboard were booked independently.<\/p>\n

Check out the Album<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three days diving on a liveaboard, one day on a dayboat ….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[59,60,61,62,43,63,64,28],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports","tag-australia","tag-coral-sea","tag-great-barrier-reef","tag-mike-ball","tag-scuba-diving","tag-spoilsport","tag-tasmania","tag-trip-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}