A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Lord Howe Island, Australia by TravelPod blogger Grahamandmandi titled "Snorkelling!" Grahamandmandi’s travel blog entry: "Saturday 7 July 2007 G: Mandi coughed a lot during the night but apparently slept well. She had not taken a cold muti so woke a lot easier than normal. We had decided to go to snorkel, so borrowed wet suits from Ebb Tide, which we tried on in the privacy of our own room, then trudged down to Ned's beach with all our stuff. M: Didn't sleep as soundly because I hadn't taken anti-snot muti but woke feeling more alert than previous mornings. The day was lovely so we tested out the wetsuits, which fitted (thank God for stretchy neoprene!) and trotted down to Ned's Beach. The water was like glass. There was a woman at the hut who we asked to take a memorial photo and off we went to wrestle our flippers on in the shallows. Cold at first but not unbearable (water temperature was 17 deg) and in fact I tolerated the cold a lot better than Gray did. I also tolerated having salt water up my nose and not being able to sniff or blow my nose or cough far better than I expected to - in fact it seemed to be very good for my cold. The wetsuits made us very buoyant - I felt as if I was floating with my bum and flippers right out of the water and had to consciously straighten my legs because I kept trying to make them froggy in order to feel that the flippers were actually in the water and not just splashing about ...