September 2018 - The Great Barrier Reef
We spent three days on a boat out at the Great Barrier Reef. Pictures from the first half of the time out at the reef are over here, while this page has the pictures from the second half of the trip. It was a really incredible time, and feature the first active sharks we've ever seen while snorkeling (we saw a sleeping nurse shark one other time). Check out a video of one of them at the bottom!
We spent three days on a boat out at the Great Barrier Reef. Pictures from the first half of the time out at the reef are over here, while this page has the pictures from the second half of the trip. It was a really incredible time, and feature the first active sharks we've ever seen while snorkeling (we saw a sleeping nurse shark one other time). Check out a video of one of them at the bottom!
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| Another beautiful day to snorkel | An underwater wonderland | Our first turtle of the trip |
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| A black-tip reef shark literally swimming straight at us! | Shark swimming through the coral gardens | |
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| Incredible coral | ||
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| Turtles and coral. Wow. | ||
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| A pair of striped surgeonfish | ||
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| More yellowbanded sweetlips | So much color | |
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| Quite a fish! | A huuge clam | |
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| Me setting scale for a clam large enough to fit my whole torso | Snorkeling away! | A pair of orange spotted filefish |
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| A prickly redfish (sea cucumber) | An unidentified fish | We found Nemo! |
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| A large collection of blue staghorn | A very large parrotfish | Another turtle |
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| A cinnamon clownfish hanging out by his anemone | An _enormous_ map puffer, the largest puffer fish I've seen by about 10x | |
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| A stingray | A white-tip reef shark | |
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| A bad photo of a beautiful gray shark | A coral wonderland | A rainbow of coral |
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| Big piles of coral | ||
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| A maori wrasse | ||
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| The final day of snorkeling | A pretty ugly lookin fish | Another unidentified but cool looking fish |
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| A wall of coral | A very bright blue clam |
Never get tired of seeing turtles
A white-tip reef shark
A much meaner looking gray shark (unfortunately the quality didn't turn out too well)