6th Day of Diving on Undersea Explorer - Great Barrier Reef to Cairns

Giant Clam.
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This is the last day of the dive trip and we did two dives in the morning on the Agincourt Reef. The first dive was at Trigger Fish City which was an okay dive, but I think I was spoiled by all the totally kickass dives all week. I actually didn't see any trigger fish on the dive, but I did see an Emperor Angelfish, a black and white box fish, an orange sea fan, clownfish, some jellyfish, and one huge jellyfish that looked like a tree stump with really long tentacles. The second dive was at a site called the Cathedrals, because it had these tall bommies in the sands flats next to the reef. They had some swim throughs in the bommies and a few had giant sea fans hanging down from the ceiling of the caves. I saw some sea cucumbers, starfish, giant clams, cool soft corals, two white tip reef sharks, a few small crabs in some coral, and some feather stars. After the dives, we headed for Port Douglas. I rinsed all my gear and hung it up to try to dry it as much as I could before I had to pack it up. We drove the rest of the morning and most of the afternoon to get back to Port Douglas around 4pm. My shuttle to Cairns didn't show up until 5pm, so I went and had a couple of beer with my dive buddy from the trip, Dave. He was also taking the shuttle back to Cairns. I decided to go to the Cairns Beach House hostel to stay when I got into Cairns. I was pretty tired from all the diving, so I got the $5 meal at the hostel and went to bed.

The first dive was at Trigger Fish City which was an okay dive, but I think I was spoiled by all the totally kickass dives all week.