Daily journal #9 reflect about reef

Today was another amazing day! To start off we got to sleep in until 7:00! It was so great and I felt so refreshed. We ate breakfast and after that we got on the bus to the reef at 9:00am in amazing 75 degree weather. We drove a little way to a peer where we got on a fast boat. On the boat we watched a safety instruction while feeling the warming sun. Once the boat started moving we talked and felt the wind and salt water on our faces after a presentation about snorkeling. Once we finally got to the reef the water was amazingly clear and blue. The water ended up being super cold but the fish and coral were too pretty to miss. At first i was having trouble breathing out of my snorkel because it was so awkward to breathe through but i got used to it soon. Then one time I forgot to keep breathing and i tried to breathe through my nose but it didn’t work but then i breathed through my mouth when I remembered I could breathe out of my snorkel...awkward. As we were swimming about i saw a ton of fish; a bunch of little ones, a huge one, and even an eel. I wanted to see more coral but i soon found myself about a foot above some and started to worry and so I tried my best not to touch them and i didn’t, success. Then I swam right through a school of fish, it was amazing! I stayed there for a while because I liked them so much but apparently i thought they were prettier then Lexa and Bridgette thought and they accidentally ditched me. When i looked up and didn’t see them I found the closest group and swam with them. Kathryn and I went back to the school of fish and at one point they were jumping all over me and it was kind of scary but funny too. After that we got out to get lunch and i was hungrier then i thought because I got food a few times and I didn’t expect that. I stayed out of the water for the rest of the time because the tide had gone down and I didn’t want to touch any of it. So instead i hung out with people and had a ton of fun, it seems that i have a lot of fun in life especially with my friends :). Later, I touched a sea cucumber! it was really slimy and if you poke it feels like it is full of air and nothing else. Then the last thing i did at the reef was go on a glass bottom boat and look at the coral. A sea turtle ended up passing under our boat but i was the only one who didn’t see it. On the way back the sun was setting and we sang songs, took pictures and enjoyed the sun. Overall, the GBR was spectacular!