Found Nemo

Another bucket list day. We travelled out 70km from shore to the Great Barrier Reef. We stopped at three sites along the Agincourt (no resemblance to the neighbourhood in Scarborough, thankfully) coral reef.

It was a great day for it. The crew said the dry season hasn’t been great as it’s been very windy and wavy as a result. No wind or waves today, just sun. A few people were still sea sick, but we were both fine.

We had our phones stowed away mostly so not a ton of photos - underwater photos from the web will have to do, which definitely match what we saw. A few highlights include a sea turtle swimming directly towards and below us at the second site and a group of humpbacks feeding on the way back. Plus all the expected - thousands of tropical fish varying in sizes and colours, sea cucumbers, and the incredible coral.

The crew said the living coral grows 0.5-1cm every year, so the huge pieces are hundreds of years old. It was surprising to see just how close the reef is to the sea level. In many places, you had to be floating completely flat at the top of the water as the reef was only an arms length away in all directions.Read more