february 22
2010, a monday
woke up to rain (tropics!) on great barrier reef day and walked to our boat. it took over an hour to motor out to the floating platform but once we were there mom, dad, uncle denny and i had the first scheduled marine biologist guided snorkel. eric was a great guide and eased us into snorkeling and pointed out a lot of cool things. roxie, a humphead maori wrasse, follows Eric around whenever he’s on the reef and will actually seek him out, so we saw a lot of the big fish and got to pet her and give her mouth a rub, which is her favorite. she was very smooth and soft and her mouth was sort of squashy. we got to hold a sea cucumber and a free-living coral as well. once the guided part of our snorkel was over I stayed out and watched the fish and listened to the parrotfish eating. it was fantastic and I wouldve been out all day but I got stung by a jellyfish on my hand ankle and face (my lip and cheek), and more started drifting into our area so I didn’t go back in. the sting hurt a lot and took a few hours to go away, despite getting sprayed down with vinegar relatively soon after it happened (I was pretty far out when I got stung). we had a buffet lunch and went on a little trip in a semi-submersible. we had a nice talk with ken and shirley, a couple we’d first met on our taieri gorge railway trip and got some ice cream. back ashore we cleaned up and relaxed then went to dinner on the esplanade. my dinner was so good i’m still fantasizing about it. we saw the fruit bats migrating out of town and got gelato.
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