Australia Day 26-28 – Great Barrier Reef
Finnaly I can remove “Diving at the Great Barrier Reef” from my things-to-do-before-I-die-list 
After three days on the reef I’m quite happy. We lived on a boat with about 35 other divers and instructors. This may seem like much and you might think the water was croded but it wasn’t. For the first half of the trip more than half of the divers were engaged in courses (Open Water and Advanced) so there was less than 15 f us diving on our own.
The boat was great with private cabins, a saloon and a large sun deck. For three days on this boat we have been working on our tans and, of course, our under water capabilities such as swimming, going down, going up, floating, breathing, sign language etc.
As most of you probably know I took my OW certificate in Sweden where it’s cold and dark in the water. This was something completly diffrent, as expected. From time to time the visibility was longer than we were going to swim, which isn’t always a good thing I experienced when I found my self at 22m below. It turned out that the visibility downwards is just as good and your depth perception goes bananas on you ;) (side note: OW divers are only allowed to go down to 18m).
The reef is full of life and color. It’s just amazing how something can live and grow that large under water. Add all the fish to this and you have something really special. So what did we see except for coral? Well, except for the tens or maybe even hundreds of fish I don’t know the name of we saw a couple you might recognize: Clown fish, turtles (big ones), sea cucumbers (I know that’s not their real name but it’s funny beacause it’s true). We saw sharks but unfortunotly we missed them when we were diving so we only saw them from the boat. 
There’s too much to tell about this dive trip so I think I’ll leave it at this for now. We are going kayaking tomorrow around Fitzroy Island in the middle of the ocean. It’s seems like fun and somewhat relaxing
