adventures in oz

cheee finally got to dive the great barrier reef!! we went on a live aboard dive boat the whole weekend this past weekend, even though i had a 3000 word paper due the following monday. cuz #yolo right? haha anyways, we boarded friday night and headed out on the 6 hr ride out to the reef. the swells were pretty big, something like 2 meters at 6 sec intervals, so the ride out was a little craycray. we woke up earlyish saturday (7ish) and went for a bunch of dives. we did 4 day dives and one night dive, all on keeper reef. we moved over to wheeler reef over night, where we did three more dives, starting at 530 am (ugh). after the three quick dives, we had to head back in to get back to town. we were supposed to dive the yongala, which is this wreck thats supposed to be the best in the world, but it was too rough so we couldnt go there. that was kinda not legit but the GBR dives were still sick. even tho i didnt get to see a tiger shark or napolean wrasse or giant humphead parrotfish or 200 lb uluas. i still saw a smallish ulua, bout 15 lbs, and a big pile of pompano. and a ton of sweetlips and other stuffs. took a buncha shots on the gopro, most of which are blurry. i have some vids too which are a bit better so i'll try to edit them up and put it up on youtube later. here's some of the better gopro pics, i'll upload the rest on fb for your viewing pleasure after this. chutes!