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We were lucky to find a catamaran leaving at 10:30 to go a small island to snorkel from the beach. The ride out was an hour and the closer we got the more we wanted to go to the active part of the reef. When we got to the beach where we were to disembark Bill talked to the tour people on the boat about upgrading our tickets to full trip tickets to take us to the dive platform on the Great Barrier Reef rather than dropping us off at the beach. It would take another hour to get there but they were willing to let us stay on the boat for an additional charge.
After we left the beach they showed films on snorkeling and diving safety to those of us remaining on the boat and told us that there were jellies (jelly fish) that were the size of match-heads and they were deadly. The waters of the Great Barrier were full of them and they recommended spending an additional $7 for a sting suit. Bill didn't think it was necessary but I insisted we both have one so he gave in and rented one for each of us.
These jellies have a sting that is so painful that they give you morphine until the rescue helicopter can come get you. The average hospital time after you are stung by one of these tiny, almost invisible jellies is 2-3 days to a week.
The sting suits even covered our hands! Our feet on the top part of our flippers were exposed and our faces were exposed around our masks. Other than that – we were covered!
My favorite part was swimming with two sea turtles. We got above one of them and shadowed about 8” – 10” over him for 5-10 minutes. He didn't seem to care at all – he looked up at us a few times but ignored us. Such a beautiful Hawksbill turtle with a beautiful pattern on his shell! We were literally inches above him for most of the time!
When we got back on the catamaran we learned that two of the people snorkeling from the beach were stung by these jellies and had been taken by helicopter to the hospital! We were both very glad we had taken the precaution and rented the sting suits!
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