We are happy, relaxed and a little tired after lovely day out at Great Keppel Island. The day was a little cloudy to start, but it cleared into beautiful sunny weather. The only downside was a decent breeze, which threw up a good swell and had the cat lunging up and down on the way over, but that also moderated, and the waters around the island were fairly well protected.

The glass bottom boat was nice, but impossible to photograph decently. Warnings on colour of coral were accurate, but it was still nice to look at. We were looked after and fed a good BBQ for lunch. Snorkeling was great – gives a much better view of the reef. The boys did well, swimming around with us no problem. The water was freezing, but we lasted the full 40 mins or so!! Boom netting was fun, and again they stayed in for a good 20 mins or more. Whole bodies were shivering afterwards, but it was worth it! A stroll up the beach in the sun soon warmed us up again.

I’ll let the pics do most of the talking this post.

We started over at Middle Island (next to Great Keppel Island)…

Testing the camera timer…

Our catamaran on the beach

Jono ready for snorkeling, after lunch. Over at Monkey Reef off Great Keppel Island.

Daniel and Nicole…

Nicole was first in the boom net!

getting washed away…

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Whole bodies shivering!

Wouldn’t mind lazing around on one of these for a week….

panograph

Heading back….

Some nice boats!

Have trouble getting away from this though!