Here are the guys and gals that made the live aboard trip a dream. This is the crew (except the skipper who is driving the boat).

The Mike Ball ship has everything. They even have film develpoment on board. Mark is using the ships light table to review some of the slides he shot earlier. This is extreamly helpful for learning how to get better pics.

This is a nice little morray eel. Morray eels can be extreamly dangerous if they think you are food or a danger. It is a good thing that they are usually calm and have bad eye sight. During the day morrays can be found hiding with only thier heads sticking out. I don’t know what they do at night. Probably not much, because I am finding out the the animal kindom in general is lazy.

This is a shot of the S.S. Yongala. The Yongala was the only wreck we visited. Even though I don’t usually like wrecks I thought this one was incredible. It was more reef than wreck. You could just barely see the outline of what was once a ship.

There were lots of animals surounding the wreck. From bait shrimp to jellyfish to sea snakes to sea turtles. It seemed like there were millions of fish swiming around us.

I like this picture becuase it shows the size of some of the coral out in the Coral Sea. In the right of the picture is Mark. He is a little over six feet tall. The left half of the picture is a giant coral. Impressive when you think about how slow the stuff grows.

Another perfect sunset. Bella.

This is another morray eel. The picture was taken at night. The dive sight was named Lonely Eel. We didn’t see any other eels at the sight.

When you look closely at this picture you can see inside the eels mouth. Look at the roof of the mouth. It looks like there is a row of big teeth on the roof of the eel’s mouth.

Perhaps someone should tell this guy that his regulator works better if it is in his mouth. This guy is one of the customers on board. He is an Australian, living in northern Australia. I think he has a job where he works for a few weeks, then gets a week or two off. He decided to spend one of his off weeks swimming with us. Smart guy.

This is some coral. I don’t know what type it is. It is wet coral.