Lady Elliot Island

In August of 2022, we decided to take a very last minute holiday. We were able to get four nights on Lady Elliot, and tacked on a few days before to visit K’gari – Fraser Island. Getting There Lady Elliot Island is a coral cay at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. Access […]

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A Day Trip to Dirk Hartog Island

This post is part of our Western Australia road trip. In case you don’t want to read this sequentially, or you are looking for another part of the trip, here are some shortcuts: Lake Ballard Exmouth and Coral Bay Shark Bay and Monkey Mia Dirk Hartog Island <– You are here Shark Bay Scenic Flight […]

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The No Dive Dive Trip to Fiji

We were a little lax plannning where to go for Christmas in 2016. To be honest, we were both a little depressed after the amazing trip to swim with the whales in Tonga πŸ™ Yes, I realise how horribly spoiled that sounds. We were looking for somewhere warm, relatively close to home (by Australian standards), […]

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Swimming with Whalesharks in Holbox, Mexico

In August of 2010, we headed to Holbox, Mexico to (hopefully) swim with whalesharks. Holbox, pronounced OL-bosh, is a small island off the coast of the North coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. The island is about 40k (26 miles) long, 1.5 kilometres (under a mile) wide, and has no paved roads. Holbox is about a […]

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Paradise Island Long Weekend

This was our fourth trip to the Bahamas, so instead of a trip description, consider this “Jennifer & Andy’s guide”. We opted to stay at the Comfort Suites on Paradise Island, which is across the street from Atlantis, a third of the price, and you have full use of all Atlantis facilities. You simply can’t […]

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