Diving...In The Air And Under The Water

The past few days Nelly and I have taken up some adventures that have involved nothing to do with being on dry land. After leaving Airlie Beach and the Whitsunday Islands we headed to Mission Beach so that Matt could sky dive. Why Mission Beach? Because it is only one of two places in Australia where you can land on the beach.

 Coming in from 14,000 feet!

 Safe on the ground! We waited until after Matt landed to ask, but both of us overheard this instructor earlier in the morning telling the staff that his first jump that morning he had to use his emergency parachute because the main one tore. We did not want to know the story beforehand and neither of us acknowledged to the other that we had heard what we did.

From Mission Beach we headed to Cairns where we spent one night and then up to Port Douglas so that we could scuba dive. Our plan was to stay one night however it is such a cute beach town that we are going to stay three. We woke up this morning and boarded a boat named Silversonic to take us to 3 different scuba sites on the Great Barrier Reef.

 This was taken from the first site which was 33km offshore.

We snorkeled at the first site and went scuba diving at the second and third. We swam with reef sharks here!

Then it was time to dive. Nelly and I both went scuba diving in the Whitsunday Islands, so we were well prepared and comfortable in the water.

Here is some of the amazing marine life we saw.

 This big guy's name is Jeffrey. He is a resident here and knows all of the divers. He is kind of their pet.

Overall, it was another A-Ok day!