Steve Edmondson is hearing a few more foreign accents these days.
This week, he welcomed a couple from Italy celebrating their honeymoon who "jumped on" a boat last minute. Around the town of Port Douglas, he says an international flavour is slowly returning.
But even still, Mr Edmondson, who has run boutique tours of the Great Barrier Reef for 20 years, says it's been more of "a trickle" than a stampede.
