The Whitsunday Islands off Australia (and a couple of the Blue Mountains outside Sydney)
The Whitsundays sit at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. I took a sailing vacation there for six days after a conference in 2005. One of these pictures was a Conde Nast Traveler finalist photo, and won me a camcorder!
The ship, the Coral Trekker, a square-rigged ketch, was captained by Cap'n Bob, an old salt if there ever was. When asked about getting stung by one of the jellyfish, he replied "Give ya a little bit of a lift, it will! Wear yer stinger suits now!"
Moored outside of Whitehaven Beach
Looking up into the rigging
Taken from laying in the net
Whitehaven moorage again...
This one was the Conde Nast Finalist
Whitehaven at Low Tide
Blue Gums (otherwise known as eucalyptus
The Blue Mountains, from Katoomba -- there is a serious amount of wilderness out there...