Big Trip

Yesterday was our first day out from Port Douglas, snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef with Wavelength.
On our way out to the reef we were lucky enough to have a pod of dolphins swimming alongside the boat. There were loads of them: one of the crew said she'd never seen that many in all the times she'd been out to the reef.
We had a fantastic time. Sarah, Max and Erin all overcame their initial fears about swimming in the ocean, and swimming with other, non-human creatures, and had a whale of a time.
We saw innumerable kinds of coral, giant clams, countless varieties of fish, and even a white-tipped reef shark (fortunately he was a) small, and b) more scared of us than we were of him). We went to three sites on Opal Reef and Tongue Reef, but the day seemed to pass incredibly quickly, and before we knew it, it was time to come back into port. In fact, Max enjoyed it so much that he and I are going again on Tuesday!