Tuesday, 8th December 2009 - A day at the Reef

Pictures from Great Barrier Reef

So we had to get up early, like 6am to goto the Dock and meet our boat.  Talk about wrong end of stick.  We had convinced ourselves that we were on a boat with a maximum of 14 people.  Error.  More like 100 people.  But saying that the boat was great and never felt over crowded. 

What shocked us the most with how different this trip was from the previous trips we had done in Thailand.  We was given a safety breifing.  Was well informed and there was loads of staff.  Oh and the food was great.  Steaks!

Poor Emma was not well at all.  She was poorly from the moment we left the dock.  She was so ill that she never made it into the sea at all.  We spent the day snorkling around a couple of the reef sites.

Burger went down for a little scuba dive, I was feeling too rough on the boat so was not up for it.  Gutted now like.  But I am sure there will plenty of chances.

I hired a digitial underwater camera the previous day so I managed to snap a few (hundred) pictures.  The camera was kewl and there is a link to the pictures at the top of this post.  The Great Barrier Reef was amazing, the sun has not shined on the reef for a few days previously, hence there was not as much colour in the Reef, which was a slight shame.  But still it all looked amzing.  Would love to SCUBA dive into the Reef.