28 April 2013
Today we were off on our tour on the glass bottom boat. Beautiful weather yet again (we could really get used to this)!
The glass bottom is pretty cool, you can see so much and within our first few minutes there was a little turtle! As well as all the amazing coral and fish that are around too. There are 250 species of coral here which is more than is found anywhere in the world. They also have two types that are not found anywhere else but here. The coral only has a 4-6% die off rate which is really good apparantly cuz that is just old coral dying off. Where up north and in qld etc they have much higher rates due to more population of people and mining pollutants in the water etc.
They took us to a spot for snorkelling that was a bit swelly and we are no experienced snorkellers so it was a little hard for us to keep up! We saw some great things in and around the boat and I managed to catch up to the group when they saw a turtle! It was so cool, someone even touched it and it just kept swimming alongside all of us.
We were so buggered when we had to get back onto the boat! The people aboard the boat feed the fish with these pellets too so all at the back of the boat when you try and get on are all these fish which look pretty cool underwater!
Off to another snorkelling place...this was a lot calmer and a lot more enjoyable to check out the surrounds. It's one of those things that you can't describe in words and really pictures won't do it justice so you will just have to come see for yourself!
They also have a claim to fame here which they call Ayers Rock, it is basically a huge rock like formation of coral and I was so in awe I forgot to take a picture.
Headed back into the bay and back to camp for some lunch. If we had our time again we probably would have picked the ATV 4 wheeler tour instead as we find snorkelling off the beach a bit more enjoyable! Mainly because when you are buggered you can just swim to the beach and beech there for a while! But it was still good...
As if we hadn't had enough snorkelling for today we headed back out after lunch and checked out a bit more of the beach. There was a strong current so we walked up the beach and then let the current float us back down over all the great coral.
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