Great Barrier Reef 🌊🐠🐟🐡☀️



We left New Zealand a few days ago and flew to cairns, Australia to do the Great Barrier Reef. New Zealand was unreal. The scenery was absolutely breath taking. Everything was so green and lush. We’ll miss it so much.

One of our last days we headed out to Milford sound (a fiord in New Zealand). It was so beautiful. We took a bus to get there then went on a cruise around the area. Our last day in New Zealand we decided to hike Ben Lomond again. We loved the challenge and scenery of it that we just had to do it twice

We had such a great time at the Great Barrier Reef.  It was so neat! A boat took us about 2 hours out to the reef. It was rainy, which made the boat ride very choppy,  almost every one on the boat got sea sick (except us 😉). There was a marine biologist with the tour company so he took us out and told us all about the fish. We had to wear special stinger suits since it is jellyfish season and Australia has lethal jellyfish. We got to see lots of pretty fish, corals and even a sea turtle! We were at a younger part of the reef which was only about 800 years old. Unfortunately the Great Barrier Reef is getting smaller due to human impact. Coral reef only grows .3-2 centimeters per year.










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  1. UnknownMarch 10, 2018 at 5:49 AM

    Wow, unbelievable!!

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  2. JocelynMarch 10, 2018 at 4:57 PM

    So beautiful!
    A few things to catch you up on - we hate Arie even more than before. big Becca is the new Bachelorette. On Greys Anatomy April cut off somebody's ear.. Also apparently her and Arizona aren't coming back next season.

    Miss you guys so much 😘😘😘

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  3. UnknownMarch 13, 2018 at 3:25 PM

    What an experience! Such beauty and to see it for yourselves!
    Looks like the trip of a life time🌅

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