Lunch monitor

An exhilarating day. A voyage through the Whitsundays on a tour boat far exceeded our expectations. We saw a couple of humpback whales, some turtles and countless pretty fish, gazed close up at the corals of the Great Barrier Reef and had a swim in the crystal-clear waters at Whitsunday Island's Whitehaven Beach. The pure-white sand there is so fine you could be forgiven for thinking you were walking on flour; and it's cool on the feet too. The sand is 98% silica, and NASA used several tonnes of it to make the lenses of the Hubble telescope. I snapped away all day, and came up with enough blippable images to fill a tourist brochure (though sadly I flunked when it came to the whales). But the shot I liked best was of one of a squabble of Lace Monitors jostling for position near our lunch tables in the bush behind the beach.