Had a good squall this morning...felt like a front moving through...

That looks brutal out there 28 and its still just October...

I really noticed the change in season a week or so back when the tradewinds dies off...a bit of easterly and northerly breeze brought an instant taste of summer..

It also bought some great fishing weather and after some successful trips the freezer is finally well stocked with Red Emperor, trout and a variety of other tasty vacuum packed reef fish....

Now we can just spend some trips diving and exploring the place..Zoe bay and falls on Hinchinbrook Island and the clam gardens of Orpheous island and the Palm group are our next destination..we would like to get to Lizard island sometime as well....we have been here 25 years and really not seen much of FNQ so finally now is the time..

Bunyip,my best advice regarding growing vanilla is to buy it from IGA....otherwise plant it on some sort of trellis structure or posts or teepee that contains the vine to a height you can still reach..my missus has planted it on some tree ferns and palms and of course it just continues to grow to the heavens..be buggered if I would be climbing a ladder with a toothpick..lol