This bug guy was about three feet long!
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This colorful lass just loved to strut her colors around us.
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The reef was not as colorful as other reefs we have seen but it still have its own unique beauty.
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I did not get a chance to post all of the photos I took from the other day when we went over to the "Blue Lagoon". Since today has been a rainy and windy day and we stayed on the boat, I thought I would spend a little time posting the rest of the underwater photos.
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06/24/2012, Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, AU
Despite today's blog title, the weather was partly cloudy all day. No rain at all. However, today was our daughter's (Christina) baby shower. We had hoped to call and talk to her during the shower but were only able to leave voice mails messages. We are guessing that the shower was so much fun and noisy at the restaurant where it was held that she did not hear her cell phone ringing. We had gotten up at 0500 to make the call and even though we were not successful, it was well worth it. We know that she did get our voice mails since she tried to call us back later in the day. However, by then we had disconnected from the Internet so we missed her calling us on our Skype number. Darn!!! We have made alternative plans to call again tomorrow so we look forward to hearing all about it. We will also try calling our other two kids tomorrow to see how they are doing. Heather has sent us some neat pictures of the garden of vegetables that she is growing.
Since today was a blustery day, we decided to just stay aboard Leu Cat. Mary Margaret did a second day's worth of laundry and I worked on making two new battens to replace the two that broke while sailing up from Hope Island.
Even though the wind has been blowing all day, it hasn't been too bad. It has only ranged from 15 knot to 25 knots with gusts to 30 to 32 knots. The upper range has been very rare. We are nice and secure in this great anchorage in Watson's Bay at Lizard Island. We have the added benefit of the wind generator purring away, keeping the batteries fully charged!
Since it was basically a lazy day, I thought I would do some research on poor Mrs. Watson, the name sake of our bay and of an island to the west of us, where she, her baby and a servant were found dead of dehydration back in 1881. She has become a legend and was renowned as a heroine to the early Queensland pioneers.
Thanks to the great little parabolic reflector I am using (thank you again for the idea, Sheldon), I was able to bring up a number of historic newspaper articles written shortly after her death. I was able to read the diaries that she kept, which detailed exactly what had happened. While the newspaper articles document what the officials claimed had happened and what they did to punish the aborigines who they claim to have murdered her, her new born and a servant; the diary tells the actual story.
I also found an excellent blog site, written by an aboriginal descendant that offers some very enlightening information as to why the aborigines would have attacked in the first place.
I will put together a multi-day account of all of this over the next few days. It is very interesting.
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