Big Trip

Max & I went out to the reef again today, again with Wavelength. The weather, if anything was even better - certainly hotter. Max made a friend on the way out there - a young chap called Luke, who's staying in the same place as we are - and they spent quite a bit of time together during the day. Both are ardent Star Wars fans, so had plenty to talk about.
We went to two different bits of Opal Reef (sites called RayBan and LB, if that means anything to you), the first of which had some pretty spectacular yellow & blue corals. Unfortunately, we forgot to take Max's underwater camera to that one :-( We saw another white-tipped shark and lots of butterfly fish, but the main thing was that the previous night the coral had spawned. This meant that the water was filled with tiny pink eggs, which you could feel as you swam through them. These were reason that there were so many butterfly fish - they were gorging themselves, having the feast of the year. We had a fantastic day, and returned to Turtle Bay as the third site, but still didn't see any turtles, unfortunately - they're all too busy with the breeding season, I think.
In the mean time, Sarah & Erin did lunch & shopped, as only a mother & daughter can.