Lars A has been visiting us for the past week. Over the Easter weekend we went down south to hike the rain forest near Kiama and later we had a piece of the wonderful Choc Rock at the Park View Cafe. We spent the next day at Murray beach by Jervis Bay. The sand on the beautiful white beach was so fine that it gave a very high pitched sound when we walked on it with our bare feet. Malene saw a two meter long sting ray just off the beach, but it escaped before I got in the water.

Tomorrow Lars A and I will fly up north to Hervey Bay. We'll take a few days to explore Fraser Island, which is the largest sand island in the world (55% the size of the third largest island in Denmark: Funen). Malene will join us on Saturday when we fly out to Lady Elliot Island. The island grew above the water from the the great barrier reef only 2000 years ago. Today it is a paradise island just 80 km off the coast of Queensland. We will be doing snorkelling mostly, but Malene and I both have an open water diving license, so we'll probably go for one or two scuba dives as well. There's a colony of about 40 manta rays around the island -- with average an "wingspan" of about five meters. I would love to watch those giants glide through the water.

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