Hi everyone!
As you can see from the video below we made it to the Great Barrier Reef!
It was an absolutely amazing experience. I'd never been diving before and am a land-lubber at heart, so was a bit nervous about taking the plunge. The tuition beforehand was good, but when we got below the surface I had a brief panic attack and thought "I can't do this!". Luckily the fear passed pretty quickly, and we headed down to the Reef, remembering to equalise the air in our ears as we went down. I was really surprised at how much we were allowed to do after such minimal training; we got down to about 12m and saw loads of fish and coral. We enjoyed it so much that we signed up to do a second dive at the next reef, and spent a total of an hour under water. Snorkeling at the third reef was a bit of an anti-climax after that!
The weather wasn't great and the seas were a bit rough but you didn't notice that underwater. Definitely one of the highlights of the holiday so far!
Yesterday we visited the Cairns Botancial Gardens which were lovely, and today we finally got some sunshine and happily lazed beside the pool at our hotel reading our books.
We've really enjoyed our time in Cairns - its a relaxing and beautiful place. Unfortunately we've only managed to scratch the surface of Queensland - hopefully we'll get a chance to come back again some time.
Tomorrow we fly down to Sydney. Will the adventures ever cease?!
1 comment:
Definitely jealous now! 12 metres?!I assume they must get a lot of try dives and get bored of shallow depths - I wouldn't have taken you past 6 metres! Still, it sounds like it all went well so fair enough. You should really consider doing the open water course as I know you like your holidays Mark, so it'd give you the choice to do further dives in other places in the future!
Sam.
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