| Your tired and stressed, recession or not, you need | | | | Queensland has a tropical climate, which averages a |
| a vacation! You go online and Google answers your | | | | cool 73 to 91 degrees Fahrenheit for 300 sunny days |
| vacation query with fourteen million results. One | | | | a year! Beware: In July and August Northern Australia |
| result peeks out between the lines, "Queensland - | | | | has a Monsoon type rainy season. |
| Scuba Dive in Paradise." Closer to a decision you | | | | 3. Many vacationers do not realize, that they leave a |
| Google, "Scuba Diving Adventures," only to be | | | | huge eco-footprint on many of their vacations. The |
| flooded again with more results then you could pick | | | | entire leisure industry that sits beside the "Great |
| your nose with. You reverse course and search the | | | | Barrier Reef" views their natural treasure as |
| term, "Queensland Scuba Diving." Again you are | | | | "priceless." Cairns and the Whitsunday Islands have |
| flooded with Scuba Diving deals by every reputable | | | | both created special management boards to prevent |
| and disreputable Scuba Business from the | | | | damage from occurring to the coral due to boats and |
| Whitsundays Islands till Cooktown, (Australia's most | | | | divers who go out on the reef. |
| northern town). When all you really want to know is: | | | | 4. For most beginner divers their first training dives |
| Should I go on a Scuba vacation to Australia! | | | | are lackluster laps in a swimming pool. Not on the |
| Well here are four definitive reasons to head down | | | | Great Barrier Reef! The Reef is special. Because it sits |
| under. | | | | as an elevated shelf off the Australian coast,the |
| 1. People Scuba dive for different reasons. Treasure | | | | water very shallow, even a half hour out to sea. So |
| hunters do it for the bounty. Scientists do it to learn | | | | visit the Great Barrier Reef for a first time diving |
| about the underwater ecosystem. Vacationers do it | | | | experience that won't be a bland and boring on-shore |
| to see Coral Reef. Do know where the largest | | | | pool tutorial. |
| display of Coral Reef in the world is: Queensland. The | | | | Now that you have all the information you need to |
| "Great Barrier Reef" as it is called, has been listed in | | | | make your decision. It seems obvious why you |
| every compilation of the "Seven Wonders of the | | | | should head to "the land down under." For one thing |
| World" for the simple reason that it awes its visitors | | | | the reef there is the unchallenged king of reefs. |
| with its blindingly beautiful and never ending array of | | | | Secondly the weather there is downright gorgeous. |
| corals. | | | | Third of all Queensland's tourism industry is very |
| 2. Have you ever gone on a vacation to Florida only | | | | eco-conscious. And finally, it is a great place for |
| to get rained out day after day! In Queensland, rain is | | | | beginner divers to get their feet wet while having a |
| almost impossible during most of the year. | | | | blast! |