At Hardy Reef, however, 40 nautical miles northeast of Airlie Beach you can sleep with the fishes and wake up to tell the tale. That’s because Hardy Reef is the home of Reefworld, a hotel built on a pontoon on the Great Barrier Reef.
Riley Lapham was only three when the Telstra Australian Ballet Dancer awards were inaugurated in 2003 but she was already bitten by the ballet bug. A home video shows her dancing on tip toes in front of the television to the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies with fluffy pink feather antennae on her head.
‘Make dance not war’ read the words on a Ukrainian national flag held in the left hand of Pavlo Zurnadzhi, the jester in the United Ukrainian Ballet’s moving performance of Swan Lake.