This why I booked this trip. 2nd night dive

This was the highlight of my trip, my first solo night dive (with buddy, no dive master)10 minutes previous to the dive the dive master told us in the dive brief that a family of green turtles ranging from kids, to mommy daddy and grandma grandma were spotted 4 weeks earlier. Within one minute of the dive we came across grandma over 100 years old and measuring just over meter in length... I wasn't aware at the time that this wasn't the biggest one. I can only imagine the bubbles on the surface popped out sounding something like this "oh my f*****klsdvlksdjfnvldvksjdcbksdckdkm look at the size **********"

Cruising at 28m along the bottom of the reef pinnacle.

frantically tapping my dive buddy on the shoulder to try indicate the enormous turtle that lodged himself on the reef wall, shaking her head she refused and was signaling me to look in the other direction..2 fingers to the eyes and pointing in the other direction told me there was something worth a look....I couldn't see what she was pointing too and she couldn't see what I was pointing to.

I grabbed her and pushed her in front of me.

He was, ( I use he loosely ) over 150cm in length and according to the dive master way over 120 years old. I don't think I'll ever see anything that big in my life again. A wave of proudness washed over me that despite aboriginal way of life and trawler fishing nets, this turtle has managed to live this long, and is still living quite happily at Steve's Brommie on the Great Barrier Reef...

NOW LOOK AT THIS!!!! My dive buddy signaled.....

There having a snooze in a cave.. Was till now the biggest shark I've dived with. Just under a 2 meters a snoozing Grey Reef Shark.. Bingo! Night dive win!

I got out of the water, reeling, and sure that the next night dive I wanna do would be with a group of 20. Safety in numbers ;)

 

The morning after I took this from the boat, one of the babies cam to say goodbye..

And so did Mr sea snake..