7.00 wake up this morning…but I was already awake. After breakfast the boat moved, and we had a briefing and went back in the water for our first dive of the day. This was my best ever day dive. There were lots of big fish out, and I started to feel quite confident with diving. Kaoru had a great snorkel, and saw another turtle, and a shark. She actually went out before us, and didn’t get back until after us!

After some time on the ship and tidying up our room, we were ready for our next dive. I decided to go snorkelling instead of diving this time, as I wanted to see a turtle and Kaoru had seen one on 3 of her 4 dives. A few other people (experienced divers) decided to do the same thing! This dive site wasn’t very deep, and we could see the divers below us while we were snorkelling. Quite interesting watching people just 5m below us.

We had a shower and then had to empty our room. I actually started to feel a bit funny so had a lay down and sleep. We passed the time until 2.30, when the other boat came and picked us up, and took us back to Cairns. The Oceanquest (the overnight boat we had been on) will be coming in tomorrow with the remaining people, but that will take them about 3 or 4 hours; the Seaquest (the dive boat we had used for the first 2 yesterday, and was now taking us home) did it in about 90 minutes.

We stayed at the same hotel as last time, but a different room. We dropped things in our room and then went for a walk around the city. We wanted to know how long it took to walk to the train station (in preparation for tomorrow) so we started with that walk. We then just wandered the streets for a while, before deciding to have an early dinner at a Korean BBQ. Luckily we were able to get a seat, as even at 6.00 it was quite full.

After dinner we went back to the hotel, packed our bags and went to bed.