Next year my wife will get a travel voucher for $2500 for 25 years service with her company. Never been to Hawaii nor the Barrier reef and can't decide which one to choose. Any advice would really be a help.
Also, do you think I should take my wife ?
Select to expand quoterockmagnet said..
Next year my wife will get a travel voucher for $2500 for 25 years service with her company. Never been to Hawaii nor the Barrier reef and can't decide which one to choose. Any advice would really be a help.
Also, do you think I should take my wife ?
The real question is, does she think she should take you.
While not the absolute best kiting spot in the world Maui is up there for raw powered riding and has the most important ingredients, some of the most reliable consistently higher (warm) winds (6/9m) in the world in summer.
Port Douglas is nice and chilled and has reasonable wind in winter too.
Go to Maui on you own, or plan on splitting it between tourism and kiting. By day 4 on your wife sitting on kitebeach all day while you kite you will be divorced lol - it's dusty and very windy.
As much as I'd love to go to Hawaii, $2500 not going too go far. Shoot up to Cairns enjoy esplanade go do Sky Rail and Kuranda Train (day package), stay at Green Island a couple of nights or so, while the wife is lazing around hire a sup (checked profile), flat water and close small reef break right tide, snorkel around and do the lovey dovey things with wife. Then head up to Port Douglas, enjoy the vib, do a half day trip to Mossman Gorge and a day on the outer reef from Port, every one's happy 
Oh and do it around October, wind's generally dropped off and water's nice and clear, less chance of rain, days nice and warm but not humid 
I don't think Severne will mind me posting this...
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hawaii
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I prefer barbara'a big boobs
Select to expand quoterockmagnet said..
Next year my wife will get a travel voucher for $2500 for 25 years service with her company. Never been to Hawaii nor the Barrier reef and can't decide which one to choose. Any advice would really be a help.
Also, do you think I should take my wife ?
Your Mrs will want to shop in Hawaii - nuf said.
Select to expand quotefiriebob said..
As much as I'd love to go to Hawaii, $2500 not going too go far. Shoot up to Cairns enjoy esplanade go do Sky Rail and Kuranda Train (day package), stay at Green Island a couple of nights or so, while the wife is lazing around hire a sup (checked profile), flat water and close small reef break right tide, snorkel around and do the lovey dovey things with wife. Then head up to Port Douglas, enjoy the vib, do a half day trip to Mossman Gorge and a day on the outer reef from Port, every one's happy
Oh and do it around October, wind's generally dropped off and water's nice and clear, less chance of rain, days nice and warm but not humid
I don't think Severne will mind me posting this...
plus hire a rav4 or better 4wd and drive from cairns to cooktown along the coast road. great drive.
tablelands to checkout. can also do undarra lava tubes or chillago caves if u feel like some outback stuff or the weather is bad along the coast.
hand feed the GT's off the green island jetty (whilst snorkelling) by yourself. just take some squid.
Have breakfast at perottas in cairns
Hawaii was overdone in the 80's. After swim at the beach you'd come out covered in sunscreen and lotions. 
I'd hate to think of what it's like now.
+1 Cairns
go to Heron Island if you want to see a real atoll. Great snorkelling, diving etc.
Thanks everyone. Still don't know. My wife read this secret post and gave me hell. Had to laugh my son said on his recent trip to Hawaii that he was paddling for a wave as he had the inside and a really big Hawaiian guy shouts out "Nobody move, nobody get hurt and took the wave.
After giving you hell, send her as far as $2500 will take her then cancel the credit card.
Barrier reef before its bleached or coal ships destroy it. Fat yanks will always be in Hawaii.
If you can rustle up friends, bareboating in the whitsundays is nice. skipper yourself cruising through the whitsundays.
www.rentayacht.com.au/
cheaper if you have more people. If you have the max number in a cat it works out cheaper than staying in a hotel...
If you want to see the real GREAT BARRIER REEF you need to go out to lizard island and the ribbon reefs try mike ball diving expeditions the rest of the reef is used and abused.
Don't think you can get more "real" than Heron and Wistari reef. Might not be as far north as Lizard but being right out on the edge of the reef it is a true coral atoll and a research station with a resort as well. Turtles coming ashore to lay their eggs, huge sooty tern population and some of the best snorkelling to see. Huge coral bombies within walking/snorkelling from the island, many species of fish and reef life, its a must if a real reef experience is required.
