Agincourt Ribbon Reefs diving……

From our digs in Cairns we drove up the coast about 45 minutes to a place called Port Douglas. When we turned off the main highway towards the Marina was a nice palm tree tree lined road. I said to Maija “this looks like were driving into Princeville on Kauai”. If you’ve ever been there, gives you an idea of the kinda place we’re hanging out. Real nice and tropical and touristy!!!!!

So we signed up to go out on a boat called Poseidon. There were about 50 people, only 13 of which are divers, so 2 small groups. The nice thing about diving the reef, is that’s all shallow diving about 60 feet was max depth. Our first dive we drop in, swim around the backside of this pinnicle we see 4 white tip reef sharks!!! Spectacular!!! We look off toward the open ocean and there sitting on the sandy bottom was a MANTA RAY!!!! Dive master says he only sees 1 every 3 months. I was so excited that I sucked all my air, and only got 43 minutes out of the dive. This was the best dive I’ve ever been on, tons of fish, great colorful heathly coral, crystal clear water. If you’re a diver, put the GBR on your list of must see places and make sure you go to the Agincourt Ribbon Reefs.

Here are the pics...although they don’t do justice to the size of the Ray or sharks due to distance, but it was 12-15 feet across.

J