Smiley Nomad

It was an otherwise lazy weekend until Brett my good friend from Sunshine coast decided to drive up and hangout with me for the weekend. We had a beautiful dinner at the Grunskey sea ford restaurant on Saturday followed by a movie, wonder, which we thoroughly enjoyed - well who would not enjoy a movie with Julia Roberts in it. We woke up late on Sunday and was wondering what to do, and decided to visit the Coonarr beach and the Kinkuna national park. Coonarr beach is a 30 minute drive from my place. We passed several farms from sugarcane to water melons and reached the Coonarr beach. Coonarr beach is an isolated beach. Other than us there was another family enjoying their Sunday noon on the beach. We strolled along the beach for sometime looking at the pretty little sea shells and flowers rising against the salinity. After our little stroll we decided to go back as the tide started to rise and the sea got murky. Leaving the Coonarr beach we left fo...

I had always wanted to see the Great Barrier Reef, but the closer the attraction to you more that you tend not to see it. Nalin, one of my friends visited from Sri Lanka and he wanted to see the place too and I booked a tour with 'Lady Musgrave Experience' ( https://ladymusgraveexperience.com.au ), 210 dollars per head. Tour departed from Bundaberg port marina at 7am which is a 30min drive from my place passing across the sugar cane fields. There's enough parking at bundy port, there was a designated parking area for our tour people which was right at the end of the road. The catamaran was anchored just across in the waters, beaming elegantly in the morning sun. At 6.30 it was only me, my mother and Nalin at the jetty, other passengers started trickling in slowly, by 6.45 there were about another 15 people. I felt bad for the tour operator, less than 20 people for a 120 seater catamaran?? Then at 6.55, two buses loaded with about 60 tourists from China came in, 80 int...