October 31st, 2010 --- Great Barrier Reef (Live aboard Day 2) Today was our last day out on the reef in Cairns.We awoke at a lovely time of 5:30am to be in our bathers and wetsuits by 5:40am and jumping into the water for a morning snorkel.The fish were quite active this early in the morning. We were able to experience different animal behaviour than our snorkels that we completed yesterday.We cruised around for the majority of the morning, jumping in for a s...

Oct 30th 2010 --- Great Barrier Reef (Cairns) Today we began our two-day, one night live aboard Great Barrier Reef adventure.We were picked up from our hostel at 8am by "Cairns Dive Centre" and transferred to their headquarters for the legal forms and prep talk.Here we paid our $30 reef tax which helps toward the protection of such a unique natural wonder... conservation at its finest!From the harbour it was about a two-hour ferry ride out to where o...