Spirit of Freedom - TRIP Gallery

Mon 3rd January 2011 - Thu 6th January 2011

On day 1 we completed 2 dives on Norman Reef at a site called caves. To state the obvious the site gets it name from the large cave found near the boat at 14m. On the dive we saw, surgeonfish, a napoleon wrasse, butterfly fish, moorish idols and schools of yellow tail fusilier.

Day 2 we saw an array of marine life. Here is the list of what we saw; white tip and grey reef sharks, lacey scorpion fish, various nudibranchs, eels both garden and moray, both flowery and potato cod, schools of blue lined snapper, many spotted and diagonal banded sweetlips, spadefish, red bass, giant trevally, olive sea snakes, hawksbill sea turtle, a green turtle with a triton shell attached to its back, blue lagoon sting ray, common lionfish, napoleon wrasse, clown fish and many beautiful hard and soft corals. On the night dive we saw many crustaceans, 2 large reef sharks feeding in a large school of big-eyed trevally, red bass and coral feeding. Also congratulations to Annette for completing her 100th dive, well done.

Day 3 started with 2 drift dives and drift snorkel at Dynamite Pass. The conditions were excellent with flat seas and great visibility. Marine life spotted on this dive included a flatworm, titan triggerfish, emperor and regal angelfish, boxfish, speckled sand perch, fire dart fish and a barramundi cod.

The last 2 dives were at Black Coral Bommie and Snake Pit. Marine life on these dives included; longnose hawkfish, butterfly fish, longfin spadefish, surgeon fish, arc eye hawkfish, harlequin tuskfish, blennies, olive sea snake, cuttle fish, barracuda, yellow tail fusilier, lion fish and a bumphead parrot fish.

There is just such a great diversity of marine life on the Ribbon Reefs it is hard to name them all. You see something new every dive, its awesome. Our dive team had a great time exploring the reefs and having many group discussions at the end of the dive about what creatures we all saw. I also enjoyed our chats on a number of topics including environmental issues that our world reefs face, your views on the fishing industry, whaling boats and mass dolphin slaughters. It is obvious that you to share my passion for the undersea world and want to make a positive change. I had a fantastic trip and thank you all for being a part of it.

Congratulations to Annette, Hideko and Ekuko on your 100th dive, impressive! Well done to Natasha and Kelly for completing your advanced course.

Thanks for all the kind words. We appreciate the positive feed back. It was a pleasure to have you aboard the Spirit of Freedom, hope we can enjoy it again sometime soon.Keep diving and I will see you under the water sometime,

Signing off, Chris (Trip Director)

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