We flew to Cairns it was much more interesting than I thought. The first day we went out to Green Is which was the freebie with the trip. It was nice through the snorkeling is a waste of time the reef looked dead mostly and the water cold and murky. I saw a green turtle which was nice but unfortunately I hadnt got used to snorkeling when I saw it. It takes a little while before you manage the mouth breathing and not flooding yourself. Also I'd swam into the no snorkeling area which was funny because it was the only place with a bit of coral. Gave up on that and walked around the Island reading the history, it was a place they harvested sea cucumbers which are about the most revolting eatables ever. Then we looked at the crocodile enclosure. I'm sure there are much better maintained places to see them but this place was obviously the product of a life long obsessive collector which is always fascinating. He had a bunch of Pacific Is and New Guinea objects dusty badly lit unexplained, worth millions or worthless who knows, but so interesting. He has the biggest croc in captivity (or did till the Cairns paper reported a bigger one captured in the Philippines with comments from our croc world that Dad (obsessed collector) would want to go see it but it wouldn't survive as it looked like they had it tried up over its nostrils).
We watched the feeding which the big show as they leap out of the water. They also had some barramundi which are a beautiful fish, we used to catch them in Darwin, well I stood next to people who caught them. I love fishing but I'm very unsuccessful at it. We had a very nice lunch and pottered about till the boat came back.
