The one thing no one ever tells you about the Great Barrier Reef is how noisy it is. As soon as I duck my head under the impossibly clear turquoise water and get a glimpse of its vibrant inhabitants, ...

There was a giraffe peering at us from behind a tree, not 200 feet away ... we proceeded into a closed-canopy forest where chimpanzees, monitor lizards and Abyssinian ground hornbills stood ...