Dive 1
What a way to start the day, jumping into the ocean at 6.30 in the morning, just as the sun has risen. Saw our friendly green turtle again as he was munching on some coral. Saw loads of different fish but ID’ing them is quite hard. I’d see one and think wow, I’ll look that up when I get back to the boat. Then I see something else and again and again. In the end I’ve seen so much I can’t remember enough details to ID much at all!

We are now moving to our final reef site for the last 2 dives of this trip, Tracy’s on Flynn Reef.

Dive 2
This was an awesome dive for spotting life under the waves. First off we found Nemo, actually a real Clown Anemonefish. We then moved around and about seeing Reef and White Tip sharks, several Blue Spotted Stingray of varying ages. These were just the actual fish I managed to ID. The were loads more of all shapes and sizes including huge sweet lips and parrotfish to tiny, colourful dudes darting around the coral. Fantastic dive.

Dive 3
This is the last dive of this trip, then it’s dinner and head back to Cairns. This dive was quite shallow, at times only a couple of metres deep but the coral was spectacular and I saw some of the biggest Bumphead Parrottfish yet. Blue green in colour and absolutely magnificent. On the way back the ocean revealed on of it’s best kept secrets, Unicorns do exist and we saw it! A Whitemargin Unicornfish. Magical.

I am quite sad to be going back to shore now but, being realistic, I think my body could do with the recovery time!

Fish ID’d: Threadfin butterfly Fish, Whitemargin Unicornfish, White Tip Shark, Clown Anemonefish, Blue Spotted Stingray