Thursday, March 5, 2009

Snokling the Great Barrier Reef and Sailing the Whitsundays

Hey everyone!
So tuesday night i left for the sailing trip with 27 others through the whitsundays and up to the great barrier reef. It was pretty awesome, i may have liked fraiser island a bit better, but thats more because of the people (although dont get me wrong, the ppl i actually hung out with on the boat with awesome and I had a great great time with them)
So we left late at night and arrived at Whitsunday island that night and got to spend some time on the beach (Whitehaven Beach) the next day...the sand was ERXACTLY like the sand in seista key, if not more white and lighter, it was pretty surreal. On the beach we had our introductory scuba dive lesson, which was pretty cool, the instructor was impressed with the 4 of us (myself, Tobias (Gerany) Mark (UK) and Andrew (also UK)). And obvously encouraged us to go diving with him at the other reefs.
So that afternoon we headed off to Hook Island, and I scuba dived in Luncheon bay...the catch was that if i wanted to scuba on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) I had to go then as well, so it ended up costing me an extra $125 for 2 dives, but when the heck else am i going to have an oppourtunity to do something like this! (and think of how jealous elliot would be!! hahaha)
So I weent scuba diving at Hook Island and saw some pretty awesome coral and some really really cool fish
We sailed through the night and got to the GBR, bait reef to be exact, around midnightish and set up shop there. In the morning I went scuba diving again and it was BALLIN!! we went right down into these deep caverns and was just surrounded by coral and saw some clown fish and everything! (I saw so many fish that i have no idea the names of half of them)... so we kept scuba-ing around there then headed deeper into the GBR and went to Hardy Reef...so i had already spent 125 on 2 dives and a 3rd would have been 180, but it kept getting cheaper the more dives you do, so it was a slippery slope and i had to resist. So at Hardy Reef I snokled and saw just as much IF NOT MORE then i would have diving. When I was snokling around i was diving all over the place and saw some massssssiiivvve fish, like at least 4ft long, it was nuts, saw some blow fish and parrot fish and just some massive angel fish and some that were neon blue, and then i found a school of bait fish (you know the ones that make a big fish and an arrow in finding nemo, them) and swam right in the middle of them!! just i looked down, left right and in front and they were everywhere, it was really really cool. Saw a star fish too! BASICALLY, if it was in planet earth/blue planet I saw it...David Attenbourogh doesnt have shit on me hahaha...
So then this morning we left the GBR and went to Hayman Island and snorkled a bunch there and there were tons of fish there, but i had seen most of them and there was a ton of jellyfish there, so even in my stinger suit i think one still managed to sting my ankle.
Spent alot of time on the boat sailing from place to place, but I managed to finish The Colour Purple, which started slow, but i REALLY enjoied by the end of it, so now im on to memoirs of a geisha, which is shaping up to be really good, i didnt realize it was an actual memoir, i just thought that was the title, hahaha...
So im on the 8:15pm bus to Cairns tonight (where there apparently is going to be a cyclone hitting soon, so pray that it will hit after my flight to brisbane sunday morning!!), 24hrs in Cairns tomorrow and off to Brisbane at 6am sunday, then India on THURSDAY!!!! buh! where has the time gone!!
Also, life doesnt stop with me here hahaha, Jew (Zach haha) got TV on the Radio tickets for June 3rd for which I will have made my gloriouos return by then hahaha, so thats exciting! I already have plans in Canada!! hahaha

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