A few photos from diving the Great Barrier Reef

As you can see from the pictures below, I had a great time diving on the Great Barrier Reef over the past few days.  I saw sharks, turtles, rays, and lots of other fish.  I'm really glad I got the underwater case for my camera, despite it costing more than the actual camera!

I did eleven dives in all, including two night dives.  Night diving was certainly an experience, it looks like everything is floating in mid air rather than water, quite spooky.  I found the best place to spot things while on a night dive was under the boat as a lot a large fish and sharks hang out under there.   In fact one shark swam right in front of me, which was very cool.  They may look like small great whites but I can assure you they are harmless to humans. Well although it was great diving, South Africa and Mozambique were better.  So the Great Barrier Reef currently ranks third in my favorite dive sites, but it is a pretty good list so far.  Next dive spot will the in New Zealand in a week or so.

So that's 27 dives I've now done and I'm enjoying it more and more, I think I may go on to do my divemaster course next.  I've also been checking out were to go next to do some diving.  The list currently includes Mexico, Belize, Philippines, Jordan, Malaysia, Caribbean.  Although I don't think I'll be able to do them all on this trip!

Anyway here are the photos, I took far too many to upload onto my blog so here is a small selection

A white tipped reef shark

A picture I took of myself to prove I was actually there!

A purple spotted ray

This is what a Cuttle fish looks like before it is reduced to being in a budgies cage

Clown fish (or Nemo as they are more commonly called now thanks to Disney)

A parrot fish

A green turtle

I'll try to load the rest onto Picasa when I get a chance.