Day 13 of the connections tour Today we visit the great barrier reef. caught a catermerang (i wish i could spell) lets just call it a boat. the weather was much more to my likeing hot and sunny, although the seas were still very rough. 2 and a half hours to reach the area of the barrier reef where i was planning to snorkel and do some skuba diving. after filling out the medical questionaire thinking carefully whether 8 hours had passed since my last drink, i lied just a little. first stop snorkling. in my prescription googles, unfeasably large flippers and stinger suit i took the plunge. within 5 minutes i was back on the boat with a beer in hand. the ocean is not one of my favorite places, i paniced as waves crashed over into the snorkel, i just had to get out, spent a good half hour with my beer at the back of the boat getting over the ordeal. i was not going to dive now. i felt really disappointed, but i could go back in the water. but hey i jumped outta a plane so i dont care. at least i went out into the glass bottom boat, awesome sight the barrier reef is something special , i will come back after maybe learning to dive in the relative safety of a pool. people came back with great tales of what they saw and touched while diving, i continued to drink my beer. we did stop at another area of the reef where there was a small sand island. the currents were so strong i watched people snorkelling and swimming in one direction but actually moving quite fast in another direction. eventually having to be picked up by boat. fianlly relaxed on the journey back to shore we enjoyed some light sailing and the sunshine. back on our coach we headed back to the resort for a night out in the town for food and booze. WE meet up again at the rattle & hum pub - no fake u2, unlike petes dodgy cd collection. after some good food great drinks and lots of chats we headed to an irish bar, pj o'reillys, really started to enjoy this place with some cheesy dancing to cheesy song, but then off we go to the next venue, the woolshed with the hardest entry stamps i have ever tried to scrub off. drunk loads as usual, emma & i managed to convince pete that marcus had a thing for him. pete was a little worried at this point. so we set up and experiment where both pete and emma would call him over to see who he went to. it was my job to get him to look over, but that wasnt funny enough, so i told him that pete wanted a word with him. petes face when marcus walked up to him was an absolute picture. MAGMA tonight we realised that Hannahs favorite number is 3.