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Tag: Great Barrier Reef

  • I Survived My First Scuba Dive

    I Survived My First Scuba Dive

    Excited & nervous for our first scuba dive! By the way, can you believe it was Eric's FIRST time in the ocean?! Photo purchased from In-Depth Video & Photography
    Excited & nervous for our first scuba dive!
    By the way, can you believe it was Eric’s FIRST time in the ocean?!
    Photo purchased from In-Depth Video & Photography

    I was shaking. It’s the type of shaking when the hypothalamus reigns and the body’s basic instinct takes over.

    I was wet, cold, excited, and frightened.

    I was sitting underwater on a metal platform preparing for my first scuba diving adventure. At the Great Barrier Reef.

    WOW!

    We sailed aboard the Quicksilver Great Barrier Reef Cruise toward the continental shelf where the Agincourt Reef beckoned below. During the 90 minute journey, I mustered my courage and opted for a beginner scuba dive.  (more…)

  • A Queensland Itinerary for a Queen

    PFI Patio
    The current view of my office patio.  Fancy an outdoor lunch? And after we can go deep-snow diving for frozen squirrels.

    The ground is blanketed in white. The temperature is flirting with subzero numbers. I spend almost 2 hours per day staring at cars’ rears and 8 hours looking out at a parking lot (actually, there’s so much snow outside my cubicle window, I can barely see over the berm).  While this is my current realty, there’s another reality that is unfolding – the realty that soon I will embark on a journey to Australia.

    The dream in my head of palm trees and blue oceans and tropical fish feels out of reach.  It’s crazy that it’s been months since I won a trip to Queensland from this entry and now it’s less than 3 months until I’m going on the vacation of my life. (more…)