5th Day of Diving on Undersea Explorer - Great Barrier Reef

Large striped moray eel swimming in the water.
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We didn't get back to the Great Barrier Reef until early in the morning. We stopped at Ribbon Reef Number Three and a site called Seymour Bommie. I saw some interest and colorful corals and anenomes. There were these feather stars that look like sea fans, but have legs and can walk around on the reef. There was also this coral called Green Tree Coral that doesn't use the algae and grow really fast for coral. I also saw a weird looking jellyfish that kind of looked like a toy top. The top of this bommie was completely covered with stag coral, which kind of looks like antlers and there were thousands of small fish swimming all around the them. We then moored at one of the best sites on the Great Barrier Reef called Steve's Bommie. Since the other boats that had planned to be here today didn't show up, we were able to stay for last three dives of the day. They were all completely unique like we had gone to different dive sites, but it was just because there were some many different animals and such a variety. There was at least three to four lionfish, lots of unicorn fish, triggerfish, and schools of all different kinds of fish on each dive. I saw jellyfish, leaf scrionpionfish, colorful blennies, cool anenomes, anenome fish, and lots of clownfish. On the night dive I saw a big reef crab, two slipper lobster, a sea hare, some lionfish swimming together, a big moray eel swimming, and a baby just sticking hit head out of some coral. After dinner, we watched a really bad movie with Wesley Snipes that I had never heard of. It was super cheesy and a total B movie, so I totally loved it.

I also saw a weird looking jellyfish that kind of looked like a toy top.