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.
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| Colorful Nudibranch |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Sweet Lips |
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| Hungry Titan Triggerfish |
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| Jack in the water, Myles about to jump in for his first dive as a certified diver! |
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| Jack and Myles descending to the reef |
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| The boys with a new friend |
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| Finding Nemo |
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| Barracuda swim by |
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| Shark encounter on the night dive |
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| Jack studying a 100+yr old giant clam at night |
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.
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