I did a day trip to the Great Barrier Reef when I was in Cairns 3 weeks ago. I'm a bit slow about uploading pictures but they are coming eventually as you can see :)
It was a grey and windy day. The sea was very uneasy, bumpy waves. I got very seasick on our way to the Reef... :(
But once we were there everything was sweet :) We snorkelled on that first spot, it's really awesome at the Reef, sooo many colourful fishes!
On our second spot we went down with our diving instructor :)
I dived before in a swimming pool a couple of years ago but doing it in the actual sea, especially at the lively, huge reef is something else!
The camera didn't catch the beautiful colours that were down there unfortunately.
There is actually a clownfish hidden in the anemone. Just look closely on the right side.
My favourite: Turtle :)
It looks all dark and grey but actually it was light and the fishes had a shiny turquoise colour!
On our 3rd and last stop we snorkelled again but it was too windy and the waves were pushing us back to boat, so there we didn't actually see much. I held a sea cucumber in my hand!
A really cool day :)