Tuesday 15 May 2012

Never just a typical day on Illusions!

Since I last wrote things have pretty much been standard. As they say "nothing to write home about". Sure we have seen dolphins, loads of turtles, but I haven't captured anything exciting on camera due to bad timing and technical issues.

I still get excited when I see nudibranchs, gorgeous little yellow boxfish and puffer fish!!! And tremendously excited when I found an Anemone Shrimp, while pointing out a small family of pink anemones to a group of divers. Unfortunately non of them managed to get a photo for various technical reasons.

The wet season came and went and wasn't as bad as expected. Thank goodness no cyclones. Though a few storms did slow things down a bit.

We have been having absolutely glorious weather of late, the months just seeming to fly by with whale season to look forward too. So I will be dusting off my camera and keeping my eyes open.

The other big news is that on Anzac day 25th April, Illusions was run into by another vessel which caused some damage to her. Click for link to article in Whitsunday Times. She has been out of service for over three weeks but should be back in the water shortly. There is a photo of the bow damage on our Facebook site.