This is more like it! What a beautiful part of the world this is. The temperatures are certainly getting tropical up here off the coast of Queensland. Every morning we get up and walk out to 84 degrees on deck. There are islands dotted all over the place. It looks like a sailing paradise although somewhat treacherous for larger vessels such as ours having to manoeuvre amongst the reefs. We have a specialist Reef Pilot on board, Captain John Foley, who is guiding the bridge officers through the Great Barrier Reef which stretches from the Whitsunday Islands right up through the Torres Strait at the northernmost tip of Australia - a truly treacherous area as
everywhere you look you can literally see patches of reef within a few hundred metres of where we're sailing. All of a sudden the tales of Captain Cook and Captain Bligh spring to life as we retrace the paths of their journeys through these fascinating waters and learn how each island got its name. A true south Pacific adventure!
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