Today we visited the Great Barrier Reef. WOW! What a cool experience that was! We walked from our hotel to the dock where the 2 story boat took off. The wind was up today and had been all week and the trip there was VERY wavy. Allie, along with about ½ of the other passengers experienced some major seasickness. The poor people who worked on the boat were walking around with rubber gloves and barf bags just waiting for people to throw up!! Luckily for Kelsey and I, we had taken our Dramamine, so although it was a bumpy trip, we didn’t actually get sick. Adysen said her stomach hurt a little, but she did OK. The ride lasted about an hour and a half.
They took us out to a big dock station thing in the middle of the ocean! It was still a little wavy, but not nearly as bad as the boat was. The winds blew like crazy all day, but the sun was out most of the time, so that made it nice. The girls and I did some snorkeling and in spite of the winds, it was just incredible!! We jumped right off the deck and could see some of the most beautiful fish and corral we had ever seen RIGHT there! Jason got to go on 2 dives and saw a shark on the 2nd dive! We bought a little underwater camera and hope that Jason got some good pictures on his dives.
We ate lunch on the boat and also took a ride on a little semi-submergible boat where we saw some more pretty fish and corral on the bottom. There was a HUGE fish named Wally that would swim right up next to people and let them “pet” him. There was a photographer who was taking pictures of people underwater and she could get Wally to come right over and get In the pictures! It was amazing! They even fed him off the back of the dock and Allie got to go out and pet him when he jumped up on the deck – kind of like a dolphin, but he was a big fish instead! The boat ride back was much calmer and not nearly as nauseating. We all had a little nap on the way, so it went by way faster than the first ride. We will all sleep good tonight!
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