Great Barrier Reef Live Aboard Trip

  Barrier Reef Live Aboard Trip: On the Outer Edge

Day 2 on our barrier reef live aboard trip saw us getting to sleep in to the late hour of 6:45am. With all the early morning dawn patrol surf sessions we've been doing it was like getting to sleep in. We had a big day of diving, 4 dives in total with meals and snacks in between. That is pretty much the schedule out here. Dive, eat, dive, eat, dive, eat, dive, eat, sleep. There are snacks in between meals, and always hot chocolate and coffee on tap. My kind of set up.
Colorful Nudibranch
Nudibranch

 The big event of this day was Myles becoming a fully certified open water diver. This meant he was now able to come diving with us, unguided. We usually do our deepest dives in the morning, and gradually get shallower with the following dives. I was pretty excited to find a real nudibranch today, which I only noticed after I saw its bright orange eggs clinging to a rock. I looked around nearby until I spotted a beautiful, translucent orange nudibranch. We also saw bumphead parrotfish, maori wrasse, potato cod, morays, a sting ray, and lots of beautiful reef fish.
Brittle star on soft coral
  On the night dive we had a close encounter with a white tip reef shark, saw coral spawning, and had a fleeting encounter with a grey reef shark right as we got back to the boat. I switched it up today between shooting small subjects with my macro lens and wide reef scenes with my wide angle. Every dive here on the Great Barrier Reef seems to work just as well for either so it's always a tough choice which one to use.
Sweet Lips
Hungry Titan Triggerfish

Jack in the water, Myles about to jump in for his first dive as a certified diver!
Jack and Myles descending to the reef






The boys with a new friend
Finding Nemo


Barracuda swim by
Shark encounter on the night dive


Jack studying a 100+yr old giant clam at night

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