I forgot the idea about going diving to Cod hole and chose a budget choice instead. Jonas had booked 3-day/2night diving trip through Cairns Dive Centre. The trip included 10 dives and cost a bit less than 500aud in total. Pretty fair price to dive in top spots and live on a boat.
We headed out to the Great Barrier Reef on Tuesday morning with a smaller vessel to meet our bigger boat M.V.Kangaroo. The sea was quite rocky so some people got seasick. When we arrived on the Kangaroo we got a budget cabin with Swedish guy but there was a little leak in cabin so we got a nice upgrade to upper class with big room with a/c and bigger bathroom. Good luck. A/C felt like freezer though because me and Jonas were both used to live in our cars(no aircon).
The wake ups were at 5:30 and the first dive was at 6am. Other dives were usually at 8am, 4pm and nightdive at 7pm. Diving four times a day is really exhausting and even though there was a bar onboard were usually crashed out after a beer or two.
We went diving on three different spots: Moore Reef, Milln Reef and Briggs Reef. The first one was pretty crappy because usually all the day-trips go to Moore reef and tourists had pretty much messed up all the corals. Milln Reef on the other hand was really great with heaps of marine life and good visibility. We saw heaps of turtles, white-tip sharks and other reef sharks, stingrays, lionfish and many other. We were offered a internship place onboard to work out our divemaster degrees. It would take around 75days though and included 41days working. I had to reject in my lack of time but if I would have more time that would be a great option to do.
I'm leaving to Darwin in couple of days. I'm probably gonna pick up two German guys who were looking a lift for Darwin. This should save me a fair amount of petrol costs for almost the 3000km journey.
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