What a Dive!

We spent a wonderful, lazy week chillaxing with Ken and Lil on their beautiful Moonbeam enjoying wonderful dinners, homemade cookies, a movie or two, and a few good laughs.  As much as we were enjoying our time together it was time for Jens and me to leave for our trip to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) on a dive expedition.

We boarded our new live aboard, Taka, around 4PM and met 28 new dive friends, or should I say dive fiends.  Over the course of the next three days we would be doing 15 dives while looking for Dwarf Minky Whales.  

The Minky whales are in this region for a couple of months having swum up from the Antarctic.  The researchers know very little about these little whales and aren't sure why they are here.  They do know that they are as curious about humans as dolphins are and when they spot a dive boat, they always come round to check us out.  That's when the crew string out a couple of lines from the boat as we don our masks, snorkels and fins and jump in for a chance to get up close and personal with these giant dwarfs.

Hanging on a line to say 'heellllloooo' to a whale.

'Spud' the potato cod.  If you think he's big, you should see his mother. 

It was all great fun with lots of good food and snacks between the diving.  Feeling completely waterlogged after some superb diving and whale spotting, we're back to Moonbeam for a couple of days before we continue our journey south.  

In the meantime, KiaRoo has had an easy life hanging in the parking lot and getting a little TLC from the Captain.