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My wife and I were holidaying up on the Whitsunday coast a few weeks ago and I have just had time to get to the pics - we had planned to sea kayak for 4 days but winds of 25 knotts detered us, so we chartered a cruiser instead. Wow, what a great experience!! Then a couple of relaxing days on an island resort before heading off to Sydney for the Caves meet.

This may tempt you into taking a holiday or just quiting work all together .....

The Cruiser


The first days fishing haul.... anyone know what it is?


The first sensational evening on the cruiser


The one that got away

We had three of these (think they were Giant Trevally) feeding around our boat one night for over 2 hours - Very Big fish!!

The reef, the island & of course the mandatory Gull !!


As this is probably getting too big, so I will start another thred for Part II - only 4 more image I want to share..............

All critiques/comments welcome

Cheers,

Great pics. I love the seagull. In the other thread I also really like the one of the wife relaxing. Tells a nice story. Great sunset, I don't think I've ever seen such a wonderfully rich deep blue.

Interesting pics, Jordan. The sunset is terrific!

Ahhh Jordan, you're teasing us Looks like a wonderful time...

#1 Says it all... Behold the environment...
#2 No idea what the heck that is! Assume some form of sea slug?
#3 Wow, an amazing, relaxing scene, all the more enjoyable on a cruiser
#4 There's a few lunches in that one!!!
#5 Where's the chip?

That would have been a magic holiday...

CHeers.

Thanks for the replies everyone. It was truley a great holiday to remember.

Mudder, yes I think it was a hairy sea slug of some sort. Interestingly, when I caught it it had the entire hook including the eye in its belly. As I went to get the camera and a few shots it proceeded to regurgitate the hook until it had expelled it entirely... minus the prawn - pretty efficient.

As for the Gull - no chips 'cause we didn't have any on the boat. A little bit of bread kept them hanging around for a few shots though.

Kerry, Thanks for the compliment. Your sunsets look sensational so a 'terrific' from you is an honour - cheers.

Dooda, Thanks for the feed back, I was hoping to tell a little story.

Craig, great shot of the gull

Glen wrote:Craig, great shot of the gull

That was just for you Glen

Looks like you had a wonderful holiday! The first one reminds me of the Titanic......King of the world!!!

Love the seagul, and the sunset. I have no idea what the 2nd one is, and I hope I never find anything like it !!

(I'm going off to look at part II)

Thanks for sharing your great photos from your holidays. The seagull photo is excellent but it's lacking a bit of oomph in terms of colours...then again it's a seagull

You can't go wrong with sunset photos

I love the first pic. Says it all right there.

The second picture is some kind of bristle worm. Possibly a fireworm.

Mostle bristle worms have fiber glass like spines that are coated with venom. If you touch them they break off in your skin causing a burning pain for up to several days. The only effective way of removing the spines is with sticky tape.

I have thousands of closely related bristle worms in my reef aquarium. They are excellent as a cleanup crew.

JordanP wrote:The Cruiser

wonderful... very envious

JordanP wrote:The first days fishing haul.... anyone know what it is?

as dhess said... it's a bristle worm.. and depending on which one it could be nasty... not sure if it's a fireworm as they are usually longer with more segmented bodies...

JordanP wrote:The first sensational evening on the cruiser

beautiful!!!!

JordanP wrote:The one that got away

it's a GT... very great fighters and prove your worth as a fisherperson.

JordanP wrote:The reef, the island & of course the mandatory Gull !!

beautiful shot.. reminds me a little of an old stradbroke cigarette advert...

It's great to have you back...