Great Barrier Reef

today... or your tomorrow... well any way, for us today we woke up at 6:30 am to go on our snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef. we got to the place to get the pass then boarded 75 foot catamaran sailing ship. we departed the pier at 10 past 8. it was a long but fun ride out, it took 2 hours but it was fun. once we got out we took a little glass bottom boat to this small cay from which we walked out to the reef. it was a cool island but it smelt like rotten fish and bird poop. on the reef the first new thing i saw was the giant clam. it was huge and purple. i also say a bunch of sea turtles that i could almost touch.i also saw a huge moaroiw rasse. it was maybe 4 feet long and very cool. once it was lunch we had sandwiches, watermelon, pasta carbinara, salad and prawns. it tasted grate but i kept smelling the islands disgusting aroma. eventually we left for the next spot. there i was the second in the water while mom was questioning whether she would even come in when i saw 2 sharks swimming 30 feet under us. so i weld that there were 2 sharks and right away she jumped in and came to see. they were about 6 feet long. they were white tipped reef sharks so they were harmless unless you feed them so we kept our food in the boat. after some scuba divers scared away the sharks i went to fined something else that could heart me, sadly there were no more sharks so i settled for another 4 foot long grouper that i almost touched. later on it the trip mom and Miranda were on the boat so me and dad thought we would be dune to, wile we were swimming for the boat we came in contact with a school of jelly's. i didn't know what was going on till it was to late. me and my dad both got stung lots of timed but i got it the worst. i had hundreds of stings on my arm 5 or 6 on my hand a few on my back some on my stomach and lots on my lips. we got to the boat and put on some stuff the make it feel better and no it was not pee it was like vinegar. if that was a box jelly i would be dead for sure. luckily it wasn't thou and I'm still hear.after an unpleasant ride back of pain mostly on my lips and arm we finally got back and the pain mostly went away. right now it doesn't hurt at all but it does Itch a little. well it was still a fun trip, bye.

Fish and coral we saw on this trip...
FISH




Green turtle

Blue angel fish

Blue line surgeon

Long fin bat fish

Spotted unicorn fish

Potae cod

White tip reef shark

blue potted lagoon ray

Red bass snapper

Seal faced puffer

Yellow box fish

Bullet head parrot fish

Trigger fish

Yellow tailed fusilier

Sixbar wrasse

Clown anemone fish

Napoleon Maori wrasse

Chocolate dipped damsel

Star fish

Moon wrasse

Bridled parrot fish

Picasso trigger fish

Spotted baxfish

Oranglined trigger fish

Humbug damsel

blue green damsel

Jewel damsel

Needle fish

Sacoglassa

Giant clams

Sea squirts

Sea hair

Spangled emperor

coral trout



CORAL



Brain coral

Needle coral

Stag horn coral

Lunar coral

Boring clam coral

Christmas tree worm coral

mushroom coral

Basket coral

Slipper sea fan coral

Table coral

Plate coral

Elephant ear coral

Fire coral

Chimney coral

Sponge coral

Vase coral
Pavement coral