From 1770 to Great Keppel Island

No we haven't vanished we just been in a few places that have had very little access to outside world on the www.

1770 and Agnes Water

We spent 3 nights here. On the first day, it was fabulous to have the beach to ourselves even though it was cloudy and quite misty. This gave the beach a really brooding atmosphere (unfortunately we didn't have the camera with us so no pics).

On the second day, we headed to the headland and went for a walk.

Rather arty picture of Jamie on the beach.

Bush fire in the distance from the same beach.

Spectacular sunset at 1770.

On the third day, we went to Yeppoon.

Yeppoon and Great Keppel Island

On the way to Yeppoon we crossed over the Tropic of Capricorn. Yeppoon was a stop off point for us to access Great Keppel Island which was only a short ferry ride away.

Once on Great Keppel we camped on sand at the Holiday Village advertised as the 'Quiet Alternative' - we must be getting old!

Whilst there we went snorkelling on fringing reefs around the island. I was very nervous to start with - it's quite strange breathing through a tube. But it was definately worth the effort as we saw lots of fish and coral although a lot of it was bleached. It was just recovering from this so there wasn't much colour to it. We also invented our own underwater sign language. But we kept making each other laugh, so had to continuously clear out our masks.

Shelving Beach where we went snorkelling.

You can see the reef, it's the dark blob in the water.

At night, the possums came out searching for food. They were so fearless, one even climbed on the bench where we were sitting. They were cute little things, but quite annoying to the owner when they rummage through the bins. But the crows were the most annoying, waking us up at dawn and trying to steal our food.

Hello possums!

We met some cool people and birds who we went to the bar with on the second night. We played a few drinking games and planned to go snorkelling the next day, but that didn't happen! We ended up sleeping in a hammock for most of the day.

One of the sexy birds in the bar. It's a curlew we think.

Jamie lazing - what a perfect way to recover from a hangover.

Before the drinking started.

Once back on the mainland we stayed at Yeppoon for a night. Then it was off to the gemfields to hunt for treasure!