7am! Brekkie and then time to dive! Gotta love it. First dive of the day was at No Name Reef. Super original huh? Saw a couple of Notodorus minor nudibranchs (sea slugs) there. They are super cute. OK, so I like sea slugs... SO??
Notodorus minor. This one has a smily face on the front!
That's me. Check out the 'do!
Pipefish. Like a stretched out seahorse.
Dive number two: Snake Pit. This place was pretty beautiful. Lots of nice coral and also home to some olive sea snakes! These are some of the most poisonous snakes in the world (of course, cause it's Australia). And they are pretty inquisitive, but nonagressive. They just like to swim around your legs and check you out. So actually, they are kind of scarier than the sharks. Nothing like having a super poisonous snake swim around you while you just float there helpless!
After that dive we headed off to Lizard Island, which is in the middle of the reef. Not much here except a research station and a super pricey exclusive resort. We went there so some clam researchers on board could check out some clams in the bay. On the way there we saw some dolphins by the boat!
Baby dolphin!!
Green Island
So we went to shore and basically just hung out on the beach til sunset and had a couple beers. Some of us climbed the hill a bit, but we couldn't go very high because of the diving.
That's our boat!
A couple of the non-diving people climbed to the top.
While the rest of us were hanging out...
Chris was posing..just waiting for someone to take a photo...
Who knew marine biologists were so photogenic?? haha
And then I took a billion photos of the beautiful sunset...
That's our boat by the way...
Back to the boat...
Refugees sailing into the sunset? hehehe
Then we had a BBQ back on board...
This is Adam from Massachusetts again. He might come crash at my house in Townsville. So if I disappear in the next week or so............. hahaha ;-)
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