Pages

Dec 2, 2009

Great Barrier Reef

As the title suggests, today we all went to the great barrier reef to go snorkelling. It. Was. AWESOME.
We had to wake up really really early cause the bus was picking us up at 7. Claire and I set the alarm for 6 but after I woke up at 6:15 we realised that we had slept through the alarm (Rozzy and Alex heard it) even though it was about 30cm from my head.
Before we could go into the water we had to be given a small talk on where we could wear our stinger suits and where we had to take them off (wet and dry areas on the boat) and general information on how to snorkel. Basically the rules were;
-Don’t breath through your nose when wearing the mask
-Don’t try to breath through your snorkel if your a metre under the water
-If a turtle swims through your legs don’t look at it cause your snorkel will go under the water and you will drown.
The first reef we went to Michaelmas Cay. It had a small island that was especially for birds so we could only go onto a small 10x1 (yes 1) metre stretch.
After this reef we all came inside and had lunch. Unfortunately no photos were taken of this event. :(
Then we were off to Hastings reef. This one had no beach so you were either swimming to keep yourself above the water or you had to go and sit back on the boat. The was also a glass bottom boat ride.
Then we were off back home!
Photos!!! (press play to watch)

No comments: