Christmas 24th Dec at the Barrier Reef

We caught the ferry very early Christmas day from Town of 1770, to embark on our trip out to Lady Musgrave Island. The sight of the Island and its lagoon was thrilling! But in true British Colonial style, we didn’t do anything before we had been served our morning thee and fruit cake. A glass bottom boat took us and a guide to a walk on the island. The island was covered with birds and trees. The amount of birds living on this island was extraordinary.
On the glass bottom boat back to our pontoon and boat tortoises were swimming around. Had it not been for our energetic boat driver driving over it all the time it might just had been able to get up to the surface to breath.
With the exception of lunch we spent the entire day in the water looking at fishes, corals and other sea animals at the reef. It was too much to take in. We hope we can get some pictures up here for you to see how good we looked in our snorkelling gear!
After heading back we had a great Christmas dinner at the Tavern in Agnes Waters for Oysters and great prawns.