Dear Harold,
Chech with the locals. It gets worse for stingers the further north you get.
Out on the outer reef you should be OK and also at other times of year (I
think Dec-March is high risk).
Collecting is technically OK in some parts of the reef but getting material
out of Australia could be a nuisance.
Regards
Geoff


>From: Harold Leitenberg <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: trip
>Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:01:05 -0400
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>haven't got the itinerary worked out yet, but probably start at
>Sydney and work our way up north as far as Cairns, though one
>guide book suggested that any swimming north of Brisbane is a
>bad idea beginning in December (jelly fish). Anybody know if that is
>true even on islands close to hte barrier reef like Lizard Island?
>
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>From:                   Geoff Macaulay <[log in to unmask]>
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> > Dear Harold
> > I think you will find collecting is totally banned in Tonga by royal
> > decree. Where in Australia are you going? Regards Geoff
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: Harold Leitenberg <[log in to unmask]>
> > >Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
> > >To: [log in to unmask] Subject: trip Date: Tue, 29 May 2001
> > >16:08:44 -0400
> > >
> > >I hope to be going on a trip this winter to Tonga. Cook Islands,
> > >Australia, and New Zealand (and possibly Fiji). I would appreciate
> > >any suggestions about good shelling beaches in any of these places.
> > >Thx
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Harold Leitenberg
> > >Dept of Psychology
> > >University of Vermont
> > >Burlington, VT 05405
> > >Phone: 802-656-2661
> > >Fax:802-656-8783
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>Harold Leitenberg
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