Today we got up early and got down the Marina for our snorkling trip to the Great Barrier Reef. It was a smallish boat with about 20 people and about 5 crew on. Unfortunately, the conditions today, although sunny, were choppy to say the least. After our 2 hour boat ride out to the outer reef, me and ame felt sick as dogs. We thought, oh well, let's get in the water and have a poodle about and we'll feel fine. Actually it was worse in a way. The waves kept on going over head and down the snorkle and I swallowed half the sea... And it was quite hard work swimming in it. Having said that, we saw some really big fishes and even an Angel Fish (only one on it's own - I swear I could hear it say "Nemo! Have you seen Nemo?!"... We tried to get some good snaps with our underwater camera but who knows how they will turn out.
Back on the boat, I felt so rough, I threw up in a lovely biodegradable brown bag and lobbed my waste into the sea. Ame bravely went out again, even though she felt really really rough, and she saw a reef shark which was nice. I stayed on board and slept for 3 hours until we were home. Ame slept for 2 hours 45 minutes (not a massive second snorkle you see)!!
We have no regrets doing it. Can't win them all. It was nice to be back on dry land and we got back to the hostel and cooked a super healthy scrummy dinner.
This tree appeared in our hostel during the day. So apparently Christmas is coming in Oz. It's funny seeing the sun and Xmas trees out.
We're flying off to Alice Springs tomorrow. This is the East Coast done. It's been very good to us and this first month has flown by. We've got some great memories and luckily, as we begin to forget them as we all do, we can look back at this wonderful, professional, hilarious blog... ;-)
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