Saturday, September 18, 2010

My Avatar Moment @ Cairns 16th Jul 2010

July 16th 2010, it took us 3 hours of taxi + flight to get to Cairns and almost 3 hours of rocky boat ride to get to the final destination - the Kangaroo Explorer on the Great Barrier Reef.

Every minutes of the 3 days 2 nights spent on and under the boat was amazing. What I saw in the water was just breath taking. Surrounded by hundreds of different and unfamiliar life forms, I had a real-life Avatar moment. This experience really is too much to be described by words. So, hopefully these pictures can show parts of what I see with you. :)




















2 comments:

Unknown said...

That's totally surreal. 1 million times better than what I saw in Mexico. Gorgeous pictures. What camera did you use to take underwater pictures?

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Shianne C said...

The dive boat had Canon digital camera in water-proof case for rent. We could have done that, but instead we hired an on-board photographer to video our dive with professional equipments. The cost turned out to be similar. So, these pictures are actually screen-shots of a 30min video of my dive with the instructor.

Scott had even better dives than mine. During his night dive, he was surrounded by 10 medium size sharks, a school of large sea bass, and lots of sleeping sea turtles. That was his National Geographic moment! LOL