Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Day 197 - Prohibited

It has featured in dozens of tourism marketing campaigns, but you can't go there: Heart Reef in the Whitsundays.

On Facebook today someone had posted a link of the top 10 places that you will never go in Australia, and I have to say that now that I have been told that I will never go there, I totally want to go there right now! This little heart shaped reef in the Whitsundays is protected so you cant even snorkel up to it, which, while understandable, makes me wonder why it is used in so many tourism adds, surely that is false advertising.

I have to say, 3 places on a list of 10 being prohibited for Military reasons seems low, and super interesting, I bet that after the article was published lots of people became more interested, I totally want to go to Pine Gap now that I know it exists. While the heart island and Pine gap would be nice to visit, Heard Island totally tops my list of places I would want to go that you just cant. An active volcano, penguins, glaciers and lava flow all at once, that is just cool.

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