What a day!
I scuba dived for the first time today, and I did it on the outer Great Berrier Reef - the most untouched part. It was amazing. The guys teaching us were so much fun and really attentive so I felt completely confident when we first went under. We were also only in a group of three whilst diving and we stuck with the instructor so my silly fears of bumping into a shark were eased.
When we wern't having our diving lesson we were given snorkelling gear so we could continue to explore the reef. The fish and coral I saw were incredible. I wasn't expecting the fish to be as big as they were, or as colourful, and if you dive down a short distance you find even bigger and even more beautiful fish. One was SO big, and had really big funny looking lips, I ended up engrossed and followed it for quite a while so I left the main area of the reef... oops :-) .
We got back on land late afternoon and the day was so amazing we were on an absolute high! That lasted until we got back to the hostel and the exhaustion kicked in. The plan was to nap, have dinner, ring my Nan for a chat, and go to bed. What actually happened was I laid down for my pre-dinner nap at 6pm and woke up the next morning. Sorry Nan, I shall have to ring you another day.
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