Seawalking in Cairns

On Monday, we had a day off and had the privilege of going to see one of the seven wonders of the world. Green Island on the Great Barrier Reef. We left on a boat from Cairns and made our way out to the island. Our friends from SU hooked us up with Karl from the amazing company – Seawalker. What an incredible experience.

Basically what you do is jump in wetsuit and then descend a ladder into the ocean. On the way down you get a 35kg air helmet thing plomped on your head and you just keep going. Its kinda freaky watching people just head into the depths of the ocean and disappear. I was wondering whether I should be risking it considering I had had asthma in my day. But she was all good. 15 feet under the water once on the ocean floor we were directed by snorkelers to a meeting place where we all held this bar and then trudged around looking at coral and fish. The snorkelers would throw fish food into our helmets and then we’d got attacked (not really!) by huge fish! It was AMAZING! I even got to see NEMO! Like for real! There he was swimming in the coral. So if you are ever in Cairns, I highly recommend checking out Seawalker for an incredible underwater experience.

Later in the day, I attempted snorkeling around the jetty on Green Island. Again such an incredible experience. A friend and I were snorkeling under the jetty checking out all the huge fish when we spotted on the floor of the ocean a shark looking shape slightly buried in sand. I thought it was like a fakey that someone had put their to scare off tourists cause we had totally been told to snorkel in that area. The thought actually crossed my mind to go swim down to it… thankfully my diving ability is pretty poor and I gave up on the idea before I even tried… cause later the boys left the water screaming like girls when the SHARK moved! So yeah… I technically went swimming with a shark

So put it on the agenda… go to Cairns experience the Great Barrier Reef.