The Great Barrier Reef, Australia
pThe Great Barrier Reef, as everyone knows, lies off the Northeast coast of Australia, with the city of Cairns at the heart of the diving culture there. The thing that I didn't realize is that the reef itself lies, on average, about 30 kms offshore, with some of the best dives sights a days boat trip away. Diving this reef has been a dream of ours ever since we were SCUBA certified over 10 years ago. In order to get as many dives in as possible in the short amount of time that we had, we joined a 3-day live-aboard dive cruise and were able to get in 11 dives.
The Reef itself is an amazing and almost unexpected sight as you spend almost 3 hours in open water to reach it, then suddenly, far enough out that you can barely make out land, you find yourself in water not more than 30 meters deep.
Below the waves, the reef reveals itslef as an amazing ecosystem. There are so many different types of corals, hard and soft.
Fish are present in huge numbers.
And, of course, there are the ever familiar green sea turtles...
To see our full album of pictures from the reef (I have to give Rion all the credit here, as he took all the underwater photos you will see), check out the following image to be taken to our Web Album.
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