Dan's Adventure

The Whitsunday Islands are an island group off the main coast of Queensland, Australia, situated between Bowen and Mackay. The island group is centred around Whitsunday Island. The name comes from Captain Cook’s naming of the Whitsunday Passage. The Whitsunday Islands are a popular destination for everyone travelling the east coast of Australia with an entire industry set up to take people there.

Airlie Beach is the gateway to the Whitsundays. Despite the name, Airlie Beach no longer has a beach. The beach has been filled in and a lagoon has …

In Kuala Lumpur and Singapore I picked up a couple of new toys. A Panasonic TZ7 camera and a marine housing for it. Since then I’ve had a lot of fun playing with them underwater. On each dive I have taken maybe a hundred pictures and only a handful turn out well. Getting a nice picture underwater requires you to keep several things in mind. You need to get close to your subject without scaring it away, you need to remain steady in order to focus without touching the coral, …

After getting hooked on diving in Asia, my plans for Australia rapidly transformed to the point that the majority of my time in Australia would be spent underwater in the Great Barrier Reef. As the only living thing visible from space, and longer than the Great Wall of China, the Great Barrier Reef is massive. It is possible to visit parts of the reef from almost every coastal town in Queensland.

There are several options for visiting the Great Barrier Reef, depending on how much of it you want to see …

I have spent the last five months in Asia, travelling around India, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, and now the time has come to Australia. I have had some amazing experiences whilst in Asia and there are so many places that I definitely want to go back to sometime in the future. India, Laos and Thailand currently top my list of favourite countries. Although I have loved my time in Asia, there are so many things that I will be very happy to leave behind, so today …

At 6pm twelve of us rolled out of the Inn Crowd hostel and set out on a free tour of Singapore. Over the next five hours, the tour covered a lot of distance. Starting in Little India, we went as far east as China town and as south as the Merlion – a half fish, half lion water fountain. We hit all of Singapore’s main sights, at least all of the ones that the tour buses visit, but without the need for a bus. We were travelling by kick scooter.

I …

The beat of a drum was approaching me, getting ever closer. Then from around a corner appeared a Chinese dragon dancing its way along the street. Whilst in Singapore I came across dragons a number of times, the Chinese new year celebrations were still in full swing.

Until 2004, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur were the tallest buildings in the world, and are still the tallest twin towers. The towers have a total of 88 floors with a bridge connecting the two between the 41st and 42nd floors. This bridge is open to the public everday free of charge. You just need to turn up and queue for one of the tickets which is issued on a first come first served basis. 15 minute time slots are available from 8.30am until 6.30pm, with a maximum …

I have posted many photos on this blog, but very few that feature me. This photo was taken by Chris King when we were diving Hin Daeng near Koh Lanta.