Today we went on a manta ray snorkeling tour. We saw lots of animals including turtles, fish, coral and manta rays. They provided wetsuits which is good because I get cold in the ocean easily. We met some other kids from... Germany! and did lots of snorkeling. Afterwards we got hot chips.
Today we did a manta ray tour where we first had to get wetsuits before we left. After that we took a bus to the boat. Then we took the boat to our snorkelling test area. We had to do a snorkelling test before we could swim with manta rays to make sure our gear worked, we were able to swim, and to pull ourself back onto the boat while it was moving.
After that we got back in the boat and left to go find the manta rays. When we found one we had to learn how to respectfully get into the water to see the manta ray. We had to get into groups of ten because then the mantra ray would not feel overwhelmed by too many people. When in the water we had to stay 3 metres from the tail and 2 metres from the sides of the matra ray. But since the manta ray stayed at the bottom we could get a little closer. When we got in the water we saw the manta ray - it was BIG (4m wide)! We got in a few times to see the same manta ray because there were different snorkelling groups.
Later while waiting for lunch to be ready we saw a logger head turtle! Much later we went snorkelling again. We saw two turtles - one was a green sea turtle they other I do not know. We saw a white tip reef shark under some coral that had one of the turtles higher up on the coral. When we got back to our campsite we had hot chips.
