Our Trip

Our Trip

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

15.05.07 - Day on the Great Barrier Reef!














David Attenborough eat your heart out! Just had the most amazing trip out the reef today! Got up at 7am and back at 4.30 and spent so much time out snokelling and diving! Really amazing! The boat stops off at two reef locations and you are free to snorkel and dive as much as you want! Tried an introductary scuba dive and didn't like it so much...something to do with me getting copious ammounts of seawater in my mouth every time I took a breath which isn't technically supposed to happen! A lot happier withthe snorkelling thank you very much and say just as much!














Got some cool pics of Nemo, plus lots of coral, bluey fish thing and a cool sea turtle we have named Ellen!! (Make sure Ellie sees the pics Sue!!) ALternatively knowing how Ellie is..if she doesn't like being a sea turtle she can be the cool blue fish thing instead! Cannot stress enough how much I enjoyed this and it was probabley the longest I've ever been swimming ever! In total spent about 2 1/2 hours snorkelling around the two reefs and even then I didn't want to get out..Only had to cause my skin was wrinkling off!!















We rented an underwater camera for the day..when I say rented it was more like stole cause they forgot to charge us for it!! We figured we deserved something for free after our parking fine in Brisbane! Very difficult to get good shots underwater when you not used to it but got a few including the the sea turtle which Dave chased for a good 10 minutes! When you bring the camera back they burn all the images onto a cd for you together with some professionally taken shots! Sweet!



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