Lady Elliot is Australia’s piece of paradise

Famous for whale watching, and with a limit of 150 visitors at any one time, Lady Elliot is a castaway paradise island.

OUR small glass bottom boat is bobbing up and down like a cork over the ocean swell when the skipper excitedly shouts “we’ve got one, there’s two now... wow! Just look at them go”.

Assorted wet-suit and life-jacket encased bodies jump up for a view, cameras are drenched, flippers and masks sent flying in the excitement of witnessing a gigantic splash, followed by a smaller one nearby.