We left Port Douglas marina on the Silver Sonic this morning. This boat was so fast that it felt like we were on a plane going down the runway for take off!
We got to a place called Agincourt Reef which is literally right on the outer reef. The first dive site for the day, was at “The Chappel” (apparently someone got married underwater here...hence the name). This was finally the moment that I had been waiting for, and it definitely did not disappoint. The feeling of been relaxed, weightless, and breathing all while being 10.6 meters under water is nothing short of amazing. Jenna and I were ‘buddied’ up for the dive, which meant we held hands (how romantic) for the entire dive.
I did let go a few times but our instructor immediately made sure our hands went back together. We saw big Clown Fish and they actually don’t leave the anemone – what was Nemo thinking! After we were back on the boat we had lunch and jetted off to the next dive site “Phills”. At the second site we had some lunch before jumping back in the water for some snorkelling. Jenna doesn’t even use a snorkel, she finds it annoying and prefers to hold her breath and dive down to get close to the reef.
We both really enjoy snorkelling because there’s a sense of freedom that can’t be replicated on the guided intro dives. We were able to dive down to probably about 8m underwater to explore the reef and sometimes we would admire for too long, forgetting we didn’t have an oxygen tank, and suddenly 8 metres to the surface seemed really far up when you’re running out of air. This was definitely the best snorkelling site we’ve ever been to. The colors were very vibrant and the fish were so diverse. We even saw several sharks up close and were able to take some underwater videos. The third dive site was called “Castle Rock” and we decided to do a second dive here. We’ve been getting pretty good at communicating underwater with hand signals for ‘little shark’, ‘big shark’, ‘turtle’, ‘clown fish’, ‘trigger fish’ and ‘clams’.
It seemed like we didn’t travel far to get to the last dive site, but the corals were very different and there was sandy bottom at this site, unlike the last site, you couldn’t reach the bottom, probably because we were on the very edge of the outer reef.
We got to a place called Agincourt Reef which is literally right on the outer reef. The first dive site for the day, was at “The Chappel” (apparently someone got married underwater here...hence the name). This was finally the moment that I had been waiting for, and it definitely did not disappoint. The feeling of been relaxed, weightless, and breathing all while being 10.6 meters under water is nothing short of amazing. Jenna and I were ‘buddied’ up for the dive, which meant we held hands (how romantic) for the entire dive. 
We both really enjoy snorkelling because there’s a sense of freedom that can’t be replicated on the guided intro dives. We were able to dive down to probably about 8m underwater to explore the reef and sometimes we would admire for too long, forgetting we didn’t have an oxygen tank, and suddenly 8 metres to the surface seemed really far up when you’re running out of air. This was definitely the best snorkelling site we’ve ever been to. The colors were very vibrant and the fish were so diverse. We even saw several sharks up close and were able to take some underwater videos. The third dive site was called “Castle Rock” and we decided to do a second dive here. We’ve been getting pretty good at communicating underwater with hand signals for ‘little shark’, ‘big shark’, ‘turtle’, ‘clown fish’, ‘trigger fish’ and ‘clams’.
It seemed like we didn’t travel far to get to the last dive site, but the corals were very different and there was sandy bottom at this site, unlike the last site, you couldn’t reach the bottom, probably because we were on the very edge of the outer reef.
We really enjoyed our time today at the Great Barrier Reef, and it went by so fast. Before we knew it we were on the boat heading back towards Port Douglas.
