Day 161 April 19th 2007, Out to the Reef - Cairns - Great Barrier Reef, PADI Course Day 3

With the boring but amusing part of the course over we joined one of Pro Dive's liveaboards for 2 days and 3 nights on the reef.

Before departing at dawn for the 3 hour journey to the dive sites at the edge of the reef Shelley my diving buddy read me the riot act, "You need to do this properly and concentrate, you can't just go off doing your own thing without discussing it like you do when we are sailing" charming. I of course then had to try and explain why all the last minute course changes and doubling back we did in the Whitsundays did not mean we had gone the wrong way. With too many navigation faux pas to explain I quit while I was ahead.

We did two dives on the reef today going over the skills we had learnt in the pool, for some reason floating about in the ocean is pretty exhausting and the whole boat was asleep before 9PM

Highlights: Real Scuba Diving on the reef