Turtle eating a jelly at the Great barrier Reef. 29th July 2007

The generator started at 5:30am, and with the smell of toast we went up on to the deck. The sun had just started to rise from the dark ocean to revel all the beautiful colours of the blues in the ocean and the reds, yellow and blues in the sky. The fisherman's boat had gone from the night before, Brent said it left about 4am. After having breakfast we moved to a different spot on the reef, were Brent it was his favorite place to snorkel This was because the water above the reef was only about a meter deep, so we'd be able to see lots of different fish, turtles and only last week he said 3 girls were diving and a hump back whale swam straight over their heads (Wow). So we jumped in to the dingy, excited and ready to snorkel. Brent dropped us off near the reef,Hannah and Emma held hands while snorkeling. The coral was amazing, lots of different types, different to yesterday. more plate coral and brain corals. All the corals are named after the things they look like. e.g. plate coz it looks like a dinner plate. Hannah and Emma spotted lots of big fish , 2 followed them along the edge of the coral, they saw a huge blue sea star and just had a brilliant time. I saw a little shark in the reef hiding and then I head some noise coming from over near the girls. I popped my head out of the water and saw Hannah with her snorkel still in her mouth shouting me over to them and pointing down. I swam over and they were both looking down so I had a look. They were both watching a massive turtle, only 1 meters from them, he had a jelly fish in it mouth and was bashing it against the coral wall and with its legs. Hannah was using the hand signals from her diving yesterday to show Emma and talk to me, I heard the that noise again and found it was Emma laughing underwater. She was laughing that hard she had to surface for air (as in Finding Nemo " it was so cool dude!!" ).
We heard the whales songs again and it was great to hear them again, then it was time to get out of the water and back on the boat. We started back to Airlie, chatted to Brent and Andy. Did some sun bathing on the deck and just relaxed. We all felt a little sad that it was going to finish soon. so we tried to bride Brent to take us out again, but we didn't have enough money between us. As we got back to the harbour we gathered our things and said or thanks. We know its something that we will never forget. One of those things that will be talked about forever. They crew had booked a table at the Beaches bar in town for a drink tonight. We decided to go and rang Jason from the campsite as he said he would come get s after our trip.
We got chatting to him and arranged to meet him and Sheridon (his sister) at 7:30pm. We got ready, had some beers and vodka and went to meet them. We got a cab into town and went into Beaches. There was a table reserved in the name of Kiana, but nobody else had turned up, as we had expected. We sat down and had a few jugs of beer and then went to another bar up the road. There was nobody else in but the staff. About ten minutes later we got chatted to an English couple, Ali and Jess and they were both in the Navy.
They ended up coming with s to the next bar and we all started chatting and getting drunk. Jason got us all a pint of something that got us all on our way. We all ended up really drunk at about 3am. We exchanged numbers, emails and they said for us to stay with them in Portsmouth.
Emma ended up with Jason and was so drunk she didn't want to go home. It took Hannah 30 minutes to get Emma out of the bar, by this time the staff were cleaning the bar and ready to home. Hannah sent me to the pie shop, while she and Jason pulled Emma out of the bar. We all got a taxi back to Flametree, Emma fell asleep in the taxi and fell out when we got there. We went back to the camper and fell asleep.