Snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef

After the shallow reef is the Continental Shelf "drop off."

Today, we did something that we have planned for over a year.

My brother and I, about to get back into the water.

You can even see the Great Barrier Reef from outer space!

We snorkeled at the Great Barrier Reef.  Well, my dad SCUBAed, but my brother, mother and I snorkeled.  The boat took us to three parts of the outer reef, all about 30 minutes apart.  The first place they took us to was called the Three Sisters, due to its three islands.  The second place was called Phil's.  I have no idea why.  The third place we went to was called Barracuda Bombie, which had the most beautiful scenery of them all.  We got to see barracudas swim in schools, as well as big parrot fish eat the coral... and of coarse multiple nemos.   We got to see a kaleidoscope of flamboyant, as well as drab colored gill using aquatic craniates that furtively hid behind the rainbow colored coral as we dramatically made our approach.  Man, that was worse then the sunset blog.  #thesaurus LOL  It was actually really fun, and we are going to do the same thing for the next few days.