Well, first if you've known me for awhile you know that when I was younger I was the bashful kid who would pretty much crawl into my gym locker in High School to change. .. And mingling with strangers or being overly daring.. um.. yeah right..I'll watch from a distance and learn.
So, when I turned 30 a couple years ago, my whole perspective on life began to become more adventurous. So....here I am in Australia....
Sharing hostel dorms with strangers who may or may not speak english, and using shared bathroom facilities, actually all the accommodations and facilities have been really clean.. We won't mention the scorpion in the bathroom sink in Uluru...
And yesterday...I went snorkeling and lived to tell about it... I'm glad I've been pushing myself to become a more confident swimmer, still not sure of myself, but getting better.
The original tour that we booked was canceled because the boat was not running. But our lovely hostel manager and his daughter found us another option.
The reef was beyond describable beautiful and amazing. We totally found Nemo playing, we also saw 3 large bat fish, did I mention they were large?? It was so surreal swimming over all these amazingly large and ornately colored fish . The coral was amazing, blues, green, reds and purples.
I'm really glad I experienced this while we were here. But I will admit I took a water noodle with me as my "security blanket". At moments when floating over the reef I was so close to it I was worried that I might hit with a fin. There were also moments when I was staring at fish that were staring back and you have that moment of awe, and you realize that you are in their home. Then there are those thoughts from watching too many shows where people get attacked, and I was slightly worried about something large and eel like shooting out of the coral and taking me back for dinner. But luckily those thoughts were short :)
The reef was awesome!
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