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A view from near the dining area.
A view from near our hotel room
This is what the General Manager of the hotel told us as we arrived. Even blind and toothless, he looks scary!
This couple didn’t move for a few days…maybe they are on holiday too and were watching us.
We saw lizards crawling around the island and hotel grounds.
While winter in South Australia, the northern part of Australia was experiencing balmy weather. We flew to Lizard Island for a few days. We took a snorkeling trip for a day trip and visited two snorkeling sights: No Name and Cod’s Hole. This picture is from No Name. We were able to snorkel right over (inches) from the reef and then swam along a huge wall where we saw a multitude of fascinating life forms. Corals, large and small fish (including reef sharks and barracuda) and colorful sea stars.
This adventure was one of the highlights of our trip…the Great Barrier Reef is truly a wonder of the world. It is over 1,200 miles long and is comprised of approximately 3,000 individual reefs and 1,000 islands. It is home to more than 1,500 species of fish. I asked one of the men on board who has been doing this for more than 20 years if the reef has changed over the years -he indicated that the part we visited is fairly remote so relatively few tourists get this far out… which means that the eco-culture and marine life really haven’t changed.
