So I met a young girl from Belgium on the liveaboard that I stayed on while in Cairns. She told me of this ship wreck down the coast and said I needed to do it. Apperantly it is the top dive in Australia, so I decided to tag along. She and I travelled from Cairns, stayed a night in Mission Beach. Mission Beach is a quaint town, not much going on except people skydiving, chilling and picking fruit. I chose the chilling route. From Mission Beach we continued to travel on the greyhound south to a very small town, Ayr. This is where we did the wreck dive out of.
The S.S. Youngala is a steam ship boat that sunk in 1911. It laid undiscovered for 50 years and now makes an incredibly beautiful dive site. There are massive amounts of coral and huge fish that flock to this artificial reef. Its incredible, we saw sea snakes (which are venomous, but apparently don't pose a huge threat to humans), marble rays (absolutely beautiful watching the ray swim), we saw cute sea turtles, along with many schools of fishs that surround you as you dive... We did two dives, the first dive took a bit to adjust too, but the second dive I was able to just chill and enjoy.
I will post a link to the S.S. youngala site so you can read more about it....
I am now in Airlie Beach, the gateway to the Whitsunday Islands, going for a 2 night/2 day sail tomorrow.... Gloria, I don't think Airlie is the Airlie you remember, it is a very commercial/party town now.... beautiful but commercial.... I hear the Islands are incredible though....
Have a great day!!
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Hey Jamie sounds like you having tones of fun, I'm soo jealous. I will so it too one day, Niice and hot there, and sounds like diving is going great, I still haven't enough courage to go diving here yet,it's too cold. It's raining alot here and I've been working lots. Talk to ya soon Tara
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