Diving & On-Board

Great Barrier Reef

Queensland

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Communal dining table... half the group were from a diving club in Michigan and the rest were from all over the world...

Drinks on the non-night dive night...

Arrival at the reef...

We used a platform to step into the sea...
 

 

It was the first outing for the waterproof camera housing I'd bought. I only took it out on one dive in the end and I managed to choose one with the strongest currents, so it was hard to get any focus as a novice.  There were some really good photographers on the trip with some serious kit, but nearly half of them experienced housing flooding and a nervous wait to see if their kit was ruined.

Here are my efforts...

Clownfish...

 

Nudibranchs... 

A Clam giving a good grin...

Soft coral...

 

Hard coral...

Clownfish protecting their chosen anemone...

Clownfish and a Rhinopias (just to the right of the clownfish)...

Professional photo's taken by the crew over a number of trips - we saw all the things in the photo's...

Our boat... the Super Sport...

 

Lion Fish...

Manta Ray - we saw these huge and elegant creatures sweep above us at one of the Bommies...

Nudibranch...

Potato Cod...

Aptly named Flame File Shell...

Rhinopias...

Sweetlips...

 


 

Back to my more amateurish shots again...

The platform we had to scramble out onto after each dive...

The punters (I'm back row second from the left)...

The Crew...

Cairns harbour shortly after sunrise at the end of the dive trip...

Next stop - Cairns