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The Explorer Guy Goes to Lat. 20° South, Long. 148° East
You will note that the locations is less then mid way up on the Great Barrier reef, places like Lizard Island (www.lizardisland.com.au), Cooktown (www.cooktown.com) and Cairns (www.cairns-australia.com) to the far north and Gladstone to the South (www.gladstoneregion.org.au) and all sorts of wonderful places between, like Townsville (www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/ ) and Hook Island and the Whitsundays (www.about-australia.com).
In the mid 80's I had the pleasure to sail most of the way around Australia over the course of about 2 years on a 86’ steel motorsailer. It was an incredible trip. We went from NZ to Sydney, down the bottom and then most of the way back around. I will not give you the whole trip now but we stopped in Lizard Island and did a number of dives there, stopped in Townsville and were met by people that were friends of a captain of a large cat who we met in Fremantle during the cup races (www.fremantle.wa.gov.au).
![]() They opened their arms to us and showed us warmth that is hard for me to describe. They took us to their home and had a “Barbie” (that’s BBQ) for us and invited dozens of people. They then spent the next week helping us get things done and showing the town and including us in their lives. We spent time in Shoot Harbor and the Whitsundays diving and sailing and stopped in Gladstone before we left to go back across the Pacific to the U.S. Yes, I know this is the wrong way around but when the boss says go that way, you go that way and make the most of it, which we did. As stunning as an area this is, it is the people that make it all the more so. Explorering all of Australia is well worth the getting there and the getting there is WONDERFUL, more on that later. There will be more locations coming up from around AZ in the future but these should give you something’s to put in the planning book. |
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