Satellite Image of the Great Barrier ReefIt was an early start for Dave and Fintan for their Great Barrier Reef trip. The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of roughly 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for 2,600 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400sq km. The reef is home to over 1,500 species of fish and six species of turtles so the Irish lads couldn’t miss this opportunity. We travelled with SunSea Cruises to Kelso Reef for the day. In the morning Fintan had his first scuba dive with his Sicilian instructor Enzo, an absolute legend diver and marine biologist who was wooing the other female dive students with his Sicilian charm. In fact all of the crew were great fun and really friendly.
In the afternoon, Dave eventually faced his one of his worst fear (deep water...although he has many) and went on a snorkel of the reef after a lot of persuasion from Fintan as well as the crew. He was bogging himself for the first while but eventually settled in nicely, doggie-paddling around the reef clad in his stinger suit and fluoro life-jacket. Sight for sore eyes! The boys saw their share of fluoro reef fish and eventually found 'Nemo' (the clownfish). In fact, the boys felt like they were right back in a Sydney funboy nightclub with all the fluoro surrounding them!!!
Scene from the Great Barrier Reef / Sydney Funboy Nightclub!!!
In the evening, Dave rested to remedy his 'throat of nails' illness whilst the lads went to the western point of the island for sunset with JJ and Kat from Base Backpackers. After a delicious fresh fish and steak dinner, the boys went back to the backpackers for another chilled night.
Sunset on Magnetic Island
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