We snorkel the Great Barrier Reef of Australia Snorkeling Expeditions around New South Wales Import

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Saturday, September 11, 2010
(The link to this blog entry) It was with great excitement that we rose Friday morning, August 13. We have very long then looked and the day has finally arrived. We should have at 08h00 at the Port Douglas Marina to join the Wavelength team to the Barrier Reef to leave. We have special discounts on the Rydges resort's breakfast found and made sure that we all half eight tasty buffet helpful. It was a nice experience for a time to be pampered. The Port Douglas Marina is much smaller than many of the yacht marinas that one encounter in Sydney. A large bunch of boats are used to take visitors to the Ridge, but there are also some that you can rent to own would fare in the lagoons. The rivers and the sea along the coast here in the North teeming wine of crocodiles.
Before we left the crew even though the Barrier Reef rookies telling all the logistical aspects of the trip, as your paper to throw overboard kotssakkie and not reuse as bio-degrade very quickly if it gets wet, the toilet the last place you want to be when you start to feel olik (because you can not see the horizon from there) and free Travel Ease pills available for all those who think they might get sick of the boat's skommelbewegings. One should always make sure you always have at least one hand to hold the boat wherever you move. All are strictly water system reminded to not touch any of the coral, and also to check that your fins do not damage the corals. If any "buddy" would fall overboard, of all expected to dadalik the words "MAN OVER BOARD!" shouting. Each boat has a rubber duck motorboat easily a visitor in trouble to help fast. Here is a photo I took just after we left.
We were very fortunate to have the two days we went out on the reef to get good sunshine. In Sydney it was still hard on the rain, and the week before it rained here in Port Douglas. We were so happy. This meant that the waves on the reef much smaller, ideal for snorkeling. The boat trip out to the trip takes almost an hour and a half, at a speed of about 36-46 km / h. As you travel deeper into the sea, the land and the mountains eventually shrinking and start ampertjies water system disappearing behind the horizon. At about 50 kilometers from the country one starts almost get the feeling you are working water system near an island to come, because here and there are such dark to bright green areas under the deep blue sea water and on the edge of it you can waves arose over the reefs to see and hear. The Barrier Reef of Australia is known as a "barrier" or known walrif water system and lies on the edge of the continent plateau, at a depth of less than 20 meters. Further drop in the ocean beach soon after astronomical depths. The ridge our first visit was the Opaalrif. water system It was all over the coral reef, which consists of more than 2200 individuale water system reefs, such permanent berths / "Moorings". It is specifically so bootoperateurs never anchor having to throw in the water. Such an enormous anchor hundreds of years's craft koraaldier in a few seconds can be destroyed. The first Mooring where we were docked "Beautiful Mooring" and it was part of the Opal Reef. I took my Garmin water system GPS, and can assure you that the position water system where we first docked just here on the Google water system map. Us was therefore directly south west of the Opal Reef, in the Coral Sea. Here is a photo I took of the beautiful color of the sea over the coral.
Before we go into the water there was a short briefing, and then they said: "The pool is now open." Its nice to go with a boat where everyone just snorkeling (we know, for the second day with SCUBA people) is that everything is so much more relaxed. With a smaller boat as Wavelength allowed us to three different dive sites because the logistics of 23 people to get in and out of the water just so much easier than with 150 people. Before you could say "Do not tease sharks" water system we were in the water. The idea that we were 50 miles from the nearest land, far away hidden in our minds. With neopreme wetsuit, water system a mask and a tube to suck and the most wonderful beauty that is unfolding before our eyes.
I spoke with my old humble little digital camera in a plastic bag with a glass window in the three days we Port Douglas and the reef