Scuba diving in the Whitsunday Islands

On the second day of our Whitsunday cruise, we went scuba diving. Since I’d never dove before, I didn’t quite know what to expect. I had done some snorkeling before, but only briefly in a lake on Fraser Island. There, I had only looked down through the water and onto the white lake floor. In the Whitsundays, we would be swimming through the Great Barrier Reef.

In small groups of three or four, we were taken out for free 30-minute introductory dives. Along side Andrew and an English guy, I put on my wetsuit, which was really to protect against jellyfish stings more than anything. The instructor, a soft spoken man named Carlo, showed us how to breath and taught us the appropriate hand signals for any situation that might arise underwater...[Link]