Spirit of Freedom - TRIP Gallery

Thu 19th April 2012 - Mon 23rd April 2012

Day one of our coral sea expedition begins at the beautiful pixie reef, our on board pax a great mix of people from all corners of the globe are very excited to begin some diving. We do our first two dives at Pixie gardens, and everyone was delighted with the large variety of healthy corals, the fusion of colour and life provided by schools of cromis, bass lets and anthias, trumpet fish and banded pipe fish were amongst the hidden gems to be found on the reef, other highlights of the dives were the coral groupers, white tip reef sharks and chevron barracuda all just a couple of fin kicks away from the boat.

Our first sunrise over osprey reef was magnificent and gave everyone a chance to capture some awesome landscape photography, we start the day with a leisurely drift at around the bend, an exciting drift on the cleaning station and some stunning vistas to be witnessed by all who participated, we then ventured along to silver city a beautiful dive that offers both an exquisite wall covered with gigantic soft corals and isolated pinnacles with a plethora of marine life and quite a few white tip reef sharks sleeping in the sand, we ended the day with two dives at the always spectacular admiralty, the afternoon dive was a pleasant stroll through the maze of coral and the resident lion fish, moray eel and eel sharks lent themselves naturally to some amazing photography, the night dive was great as usual, as we descended down the mooring line we were greet by thousands of glowing eyes provided by the many different crustaceans that inhabit the reef and some curious grey reef sharks cruising around under the boat. Needless to say everyone was ready for bed to charge the batteries for another day of diving the wonders of osprey reef.

We all awaken to a glorious sunrise ready to explore the top of osprey at the cream of the crop north horn a magical wall dive gave our divers a fantastic thrill ride down the southern wall and a few grey reef sharks, silvertips and a hammerhead came out of the blue to give us all a glimpse and as we arrive to the back of the boat about 25 sharks greeted us, next up the main event the world famous shark feed and a great feed it was lots of sharks in a frenzy giving all the divers some awesome pics and a racing heartbeat, another popular sight was the lacy scorpion fish and the resident potato cod decided to show up and hang around long enough to get photographed and get a bit of a cleaning by some willing cleaner wrasse, another dive along the eastern wall was just as spectacular as the first with schools of barracuda, big eyed trevally and a massive dog tooth tuna and a rather shy octopus. Castles was the last stop on osprey and a nice relaxing dive was just the way to end another successful Coral Sea exploration.

We arrive back in the ribbon reef number 3 to steves bommie for two amazing dives, stone fish, wobbegong sharks, ornate ghost pipe fish, green sea turtles and an amazing diversity of life and colour. We move on to joanies joy and flare point for our last two dives of the trip and cuttle fish, loggerhead turtles a large variety of nudibranchs and flat worms we only a few amongst the amazing life spotted on these dives.

We end the trip we some laughs and fond memories and a delicious BBQ prepared by our master chef drew.
A very big thank you to all our amazing guests and we hope to see you all aboard in the very near future

Congratulations to jen, our newest nitrox diver and Stewart for joining us for his 24 thrip on board spirit of freedom

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