Greenbuddy – Cairns Travel Blog, Dive Tour Reviews, Scuba Diving The Great Barrier Reef Cairns Dive Cruise Trip Reviews & Adventure

Well we are here we have arrived welcome to 2012 !! I hope everyone survived the new year festivities all over the world !! The year in reflection has seen allot of changes happening in the tourism industry here in Cairns for 2011. I think prices on tours are starting to stabilize a little bit there has been allot of movement in prices over the last year which reflects the economic times felt by the industry. X-mass saw allot of people going out to the Great Barrier Reef with just about every tour boat full everyday over the X-mass New Year period !! Fantastic! It really does show the resilience of Cairns & The Great Barrier Reef. Cairns is a world class facility with amazing landscapes and natural beauty that is hard pressed to find in such concentration anywhere else in Australia. As the Bangkok post put it the World Wonder Down Under! its true everybody is welcome here in Cairns! the lifestyle of this Great Barrier Reef City continues to move forward with people flocking here from all over the world to see her iconic Gem The Great Barrier Reef! Happy New Year everybody ! Nemo says G’day Mate !

The beautiful blue skies and light sea breeze season is upon us at last !!! Wow this is the best season for the whole year ! The weather is so nice this time of year 28 degrees blue skies!! I was lucky enough to head out to the Great Barrier Reef yesterday in a De Havilland Beaver Float Plane with Cairns Sea Planes, what an awesome flight. We headed out over Green Island, Middle Cay, Michaelmas Cay and Upolo Cay about 30 minutes in total. I made a qucik little video with my iphone its a bit wobbly but will give you the idea check it out !!!! Thanks to Joel and all the crew at Cairns Sea Planes!!

Last Sunday I made the journey down to the S.S. Yongala with my dive buddie Julian Dona and I must say this is still the best dive I have ever done!! Even after all the flooding down in South East Queensland this is the most amount of fish I have ever seen here, this wreck dive is at around 30m and is spectacular. Thank you to all the crew and staff and the mighty Yongala Dive.

So last Friday I was lucky enough to go for a wee 10 min flight around Cairns in a Robinson R44 what a fantastic aircraft so manoeuvrable allot of fun! The weather was nice and warm with a cool sea breeze.

I wish everybody a super Merry X-mass I hope everybody is with family & friends. Thank you to everybody from all over the world for all of your emails I try to get back to every single one of you! I hope Greenbuddy inspires you to come back to Cairns or to even make your first visit to Cairns and The Great Barrier Reef. Take Care! Clint

What a fantastic day on Sunday the sun was shinning the ocean was crystal clear. I was diving with my buddie when we came across two giant trevally being cleaned by a bunch of little cleaner fish. I managed to get pretty close before they decided to get out of there take a look if you have 5 minutes.

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