We are home after our 3 week adventure in Australia! The trip was fun, but expensive. After our amazing dive with the Fur Seals in Tasmania I did end up buying a new lens for my camera while we were in Sydney. I was able to find a fixed 28mm lens that fit in the lens port on my Ikelite underwater housing.
After our week in Tasmania, we spent a couple days in Sydney - then a couple days in Cairns before we went on the live-a-board for a week on the Great Barrier Reef. I am happy to say I did not get sea sick at all while at sea. The water for diving was much warmer - in the low 80s (Fahrenheit) - as apposed to the high 50s of the water in Tasmania... so, I was happy!
The visibility was not as good as I had expected, but still not bad. The amount of pristine beautiful coral was wonderful! We saw lots of sharks - most of them were smaller than the ones I've seen in other oceans, but much of that was due to the breed of sharks we saw - mostly white tip reef sharks. We also saw gray & silver tip reef sharks. We did do a shark feed on one day so I got some great shark photos!
Some other fun stuff we saw: octopus, cuttlefish, lion fish, huge cod (grouper), bump head parrot fish, schools of barracuda, anemone fish (even one true clown fish), plus many other fish in massive quantities!
