Snorkel Behind Beez
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 24 Jun 2013 22:57
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Our First Snorkel in the
Gambiers
After lunch, I felt brave enough to
enter the cold water for the first time – in my wetsuit, I still think it’s a
very strange feeling wearing one and my buoyancy makes flippering more
difficult. Bear was very manly going in in just his cossie. Hervé assured me this white chap was harmless, but I did give him a little prod
with the camera, not quite up to stroking them just yet.
Beez is anchored in fifty feet of
water and we swing round in twenty five. No more than fifty feet from the back
of the girl we are in ten feet of water, strange going from deep blue to a
veritable hard coral garden within minutes.
Shallower
still.
Now just enough water
for us to clear the reef.
The colours are
muted compared to soft corals, but the water, like the Galapagos, is too
cold with not a Nemo in sight.
We moved from area to area, Bear points to a lovely, big, flat coral.
We saw a
cowfish.
So much to
see, we forgot about the cold
water.
Another different
area.
Bear with about
eight feet of water below him, just to his left – thirty and
where I am to his right about four.
ALL IN ALL
INCREDIBLY CLEAR WATER
MUCH TO SEE
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