nwflyboy
Contributor
The references to the weather being "cold" or "cool" anywhere along the GBR comes as a bit of a surprise - exactly how "cool" or "cold" are we really talking about here?
Perhaps I'm very naive, but I assume this is a true tropical climate, and is hot or at least warm all year round (except maybe during a rainstorm) - at least to me. When you refer to "cool" or "cold" are you using that term relatively? I mean, I've been to Thailand, and locals refer to it being "cool" in some places. I went to those places and it was bloody hot and humid to me - just not quite as miserably hot and humid as other places. I laugh when they refer to Chiangmai as "cool" - yeah, OK, 90 degrees F is "cooler" than 98 but it's hardly what I'd call "cool".
We live in Seattle. We get a short, nice summer here (July-August), and a long wet, cool season (November-April or May). We prefer to travel to tropical destinations during our crappy weather months (hate to waste any of our brief summer). It's unlikely we would want to go to Australia from June-September. We would probably want to avoid stingers if easily done.
Seeing whales sounds nice but I always figure it's not wise to structure a trip around such things, having heard "you should have been here last week!" a few times. The diving would be to see the reef and marine life in general. If we get whales or coral spawning, that would be a nice extra but I'm not looking to chase those things since there's no guarantee the critters show up when you want and chasing them often means you miss other things that would be more reliable if you hadn't.
Now we were thinking of October...
Perhaps I'm very naive, but I assume this is a true tropical climate, and is hot or at least warm all year round (except maybe during a rainstorm) - at least to me. When you refer to "cool" or "cold" are you using that term relatively? I mean, I've been to Thailand, and locals refer to it being "cool" in some places. I went to those places and it was bloody hot and humid to me - just not quite as miserably hot and humid as other places. I laugh when they refer to Chiangmai as "cool" - yeah, OK, 90 degrees F is "cooler" than 98 but it's hardly what I'd call "cool".
We live in Seattle. We get a short, nice summer here (July-August), and a long wet, cool season (November-April or May). We prefer to travel to tropical destinations during our crappy weather months (hate to waste any of our brief summer). It's unlikely we would want to go to Australia from June-September. We would probably want to avoid stingers if easily done.
Seeing whales sounds nice but I always figure it's not wise to structure a trip around such things, having heard "you should have been here last week!" a few times. The diving would be to see the reef and marine life in general. If we get whales or coral spawning, that would be a nice extra but I'm not looking to chase those things since there's no guarantee the critters show up when you want and chasing them often means you miss other things that would be more reliable if you hadn't.
Now we were thinking of October...
