I'm not sure why this photo didn't load with the last one, but neither did all the words originally so it's an excuse to write some more about snorkelling. So here is the beach where the kids spent some time while we went snorkelling. (and the low isles story now has words).
We thought Jake and Toby might be able to snorkel as they're both getting pretty good at swimming and Jake was up first. Given we'd never tried the whole mask thing before, that was probably a bit ambitious. Jake couldn't get the snorkel breathing sorted, but he had the good idea to just look in mask and breath above water. So off we went. He clung on to me and the noodle and we went and saw the reef and few pretty fish. He was a bit freaked out about not being able to stand I think and didn't want to stay out too long but was very brave and calm about it.
After that Connah and I both had a chance to do some snorkelling by ourselves and the boys and Connah went on an island tour with the marine biologist. The boys are just like their Dad, not only do they like nature documentaries but they spent the tour as close as possible to the marine biologist, Amy so they didn't miss any information. Cute.
The Quicksilver lifesavers were great at directing us at where the best spots to see turtles/ coral was.
All in all, I'm claiming this as new thing number twenty-something - snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef.
I loved it so much I looked into another day for us later in the week but we were too busy doing so many other things. Far North Queensland is fantastic. In fact we were blown away by the service everywhere we went. We will definitely be back.
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