A long journey through the night and we were a couple of hours from Cairns. We dived 2 dives at a Barrier reef dive site. They were calm and relaxed. With us just checking out the small stuff.

Saw a lovely little pipefish crawling along, and a very friendly Maori Wrasse who apparently attempted to swallow another divers torch.

We also saw a turtle swimming through which was a bonus since we missed out the night before.

Another thing that was on my mind was that this was it. No diving for a long time. Very sad about that. Its been a big part of our last 6 months, and we both enjoy it immensely of course. Now what? How do we deal with not being able to dive nearly every day.. To answer truthfully, I don’t know.! We shall see.

We returned to Cairns, a couple of hours later and picked up the trusty camper. Drove to a caravan park, and checked out some skydiving for Thursday. This will be our finale… We leave Australia on Friday morning to fly to Singapore.

So…. not long now folks!

Another early morning, and we arrived at Clam Gardens, a fairly shallow site famed for its giant clams… hence the name!!

We took a nice calm dive, and spotted a few things, and then Jen tugged me to show me a lovely Cuttlefish which I got some absolutely stunning footage of. Can’t wait to see what it looks like on a big screen!

Dive 10, was Stevie’s Bommie which was named after a guy who loved this site and died in a motorcycle accident.. His mates stuck a memorial plaque down at 25m.. we checked the plaque out and then dived round the pinnacle a few times, see schools of snapper, some leaf fish, and another flame file shell.

Dive 11 after lunch was 2/3. Funny name for a dive site but there you go. A couple of shark, and beautiful trumpet fish… was nice.

Dive 12, night dive time… at Beer Garden… giant turtles come here to sleep but we didn’t see a single one…. bugger!! Was a very dissapointing dive, and we saw nothing except a giant white moray swimming through.

WE ARE BACK!!!

We jumped off the boat a couple of hours ago, and I have spent ages doing 2 posts for you. The rest will come tomorrow!

See below for 2 new posts….

SD