Tuesday, May 30, 2006
DIVE TRIP - WHEELER REEF & YONGALA WRECK
Departed Townsville, Friday night 26th May on "Sea-esta" Pro Dive liveaboard dive boat. There were thirteen passengers on board, mostly back packers from France, UK and Canada. We steamed out at night and arrived at Wheeler Reef early on Saturday morning. We enjoyed three good dives during the day.
On Sunday morning we had one more dive on Wheeler Reef before heading to Davies Reef. The weather had set in and it was quite miserable with the rain. There is no area on Sea-esta to sit comfortably out of the rain so we were all snuggled in our cabins between dives. Davies Reef had some good swim throughs to explore and Ferg got some good photos.
We moved to Yongala Wreck early on Monday morning and we were in for our first dive at 6.30am. Ferg was crook due to the swells coming through so I went for the first dive with our friend, Robyn. Luckily Ferg rallied and was able to go in for the second dive. As usual Yongala was spectacular, we saw at least a dozen turtles, bull ray, sea snakes and masses of various reef fish. It was sad leaving the wreck as it will probably be quite a long time before we get another dive on it.
The trip home was long and boring as usual, it's always the worst part of the trip. We arrived back into Townsville at 4pm. All the passengers and crew met for dinner at Bistro One later in the evening. It was a nice ending to our trip.
