Saturday, February 13, 2010

Australia - Finding Nemo

I thought panoramas on land are gorgeous, but now I think God created His finest masterpiece under water! I did my first dive and two snorkles in the outter Great Barrier Reef. It must not be summer under water because school is definitely in session - thousands of fish swimming together. Literally.

(my pre-SCUBA concentration face)



This was my first SCUBA. There's something about an activity that in the on-boat lesson the instructor teaches you the hand signal for 'shark', and a separate sign for 'great white shark' that's a bit unnerving! It took me a couple minutes to trust my oxygen tank and then I loved the freedom of being able to stay under and go down 12 meters to socialize with the sealife.


I saw a huge variety of fish, scary stingy jellies, clams, sea cucumbers and coral. I even saw Nemo with his clown fish friends! The fish covered the full spectrum of colors and patterns.

I had this wow - I'm really diving the Great Barrier Reef moment today. It's a bucket list must!






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Location:Davidson St,Port Douglas,Australia

2 comments:

  1. W0W,how fun!! Looks like your having a blast every day, what a life! Not much here. All the snow took out a huge chunk of the tree in front of your window. The whole thing will probably have to come down. We got about 6or 7 inches here, it varied all over the metroplex. Andy got 12 inches at his house. Most of it melted today tho. Waiting for warmer weather. Love and miss you!

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  2. cheers to the hope you don't see any of those hand signals or hear the creepy "duh dun. duh dun..." music from jaws!

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