After two days of pool dives and theory and now I’m about to see the Great Barrier Reef for the first time. In a couple of hours Pro Dive will pick me and the other 11 students up for 3 days on a live aboard. Apparently another group out on the boat yesterday saw a whale shark which swam right past them. That would be absolutely amazing. There is also a possibility of seeing humpbacks on the way out to the reef and even minke whales.

We have quite a mixed group including Germans, free-diving fisherman from the Torres Strait, a guy from Hong Kong and a girl from Brazil. Quite a mixed bag but a really good group. We have 2 instructors, Scott and Lisa, meaning small groups of 6 six students. Lisa is English takes the group I’m in while Scott is Australian and takes the other six.

Apart from our group of 12 students doing the open water course, there will be 31 people on the boat including some advanced open water students, pleasure divers and snorkelers. Should be a fun few days.

Hoping to get a few pictures posted of the time on the boat but no underwater camera for me yet as I want to concentrate on the diving.