I'm just back from a 3-day, 3-night liveaboard around Lady Musgrave Island. I left from Bundaberg (well known for its rum) which is about 3.5h drive north of Brisbane.
Pictures don't do justice to the place as I constantly had something else in mind than taking pictures and bottom time was a dramatic problem to me, usually the first 30 minutes are for warm-up and the fact that I lost my strobe diffuser in the liveaboard in Cairns did not help as well.
This Bundaberg liveaboard is the ONLY one going to the south of the great barrier reef. It is very little explored and the potential is absolutely enormous to me. The coral is in amazing conditions, plenty of marine life, nudibranchs, turtles, sharks, manta rays and dolphins. 
Unfortunately my diving was not so great because of the diving limitations imposed by the dive center: 40min dive max, and you had to use tables to compute your diving time. No computer diving allowed. :angryfire:
I feel like the diving in this place can be absolutely awesome but there is all to discover here. I took all information necessary to charter the boat for a 6-day trip, so if anyone feels like exploring this place one day (probably next year), please drop me a note so that I can figure interest. If all divers onboard are experienced we can do our own thing and dive wherever we want.
