There are plenty of daytrips or live aboard operations around this area so check carefully before you make your choice.
I looked for a small group of people & a new reef location rather than the big ones operating for 30 years at the same spot!
We were lucky and found the Calypso – which offers a very personal service, max 70pax, 5pax each dive group & they operate at the newer Opal Reef, which is big enough to provide 3-5different dive sites.
http://www.calypsoreefcruises.com/
Everyone was quiet excite for this trip as we all 4 are going to dive the first time at the GBR!!!
For Carmen it is her first dive after she made her licenses and Nong & Thanthep never even dove before. So here we are sitting, can`t wait what we are going to see…
After the first exhausting minutes and the struggle with the new environment, the weight of your heavy equipment disappear, you start floating & the only thing you can hear is the slow breath of yours as Darth Vader in Star Wars.
And it pays off – there is so much to see and experience, I don`t know where to start:
Huge corals all around you
Small friends like the funny clown fishes (Nemo)
A shy gobi
Or the really huge one (Napoleon)
Of course nudi branches and flat-worms
The dive buddies – Nong & Thanthep (with very special nose mask technique :-)
And even a Mermaid ;-)
Yeah – we did it!!!
Sailing back with a lot of impressions of the deep blue…
Found Nemo
