Brett holding hands with Jess making sure she is enjoying her diving at Jervis Bay.
But the next dive attempt at Terrigal turned out differently:

Day 4

Emma's horrible day!

We woke up to a rainy day in Woy Woy (Little Beach) with the usual “wakey wakey everyone”

and all was well until we arrived at the HMS Adelaide dive site.

Then from there on end it just went down hill! Our gear was still wet and it was still raining and we had about an hour before we left while the advance group went out, so we went to the Cafe and of course ate! And drunk milk containing fluids (never try this at home!)

When they returned, they were all a pale white and an unhappy looking group some could not dive because of broken gear others just cold and sea sick! And then it was our turn seeing how the last returned we were over joyed to embark on our journey.

The journey out was a lot of fun the waves were 1 meter high and the boat jumped from side to side and up and down this was the best bit of the day :)

When we arrived at the dive site it was all go go go!!! and we were all confused and unprepared as were practically pushed into the water and told to swim to a buoy about 5 meters away in this swell being the first in I was panicking. I managed to get to the boy fine but then was left out there for 5 minutes until the next person came.

I am not a fan of the ocean and being by my self in the middle of it not being able to see the people because of the waves and only seeing blue downwards petrified of a shark coming up! (stupid but in the moment grrr)

When everyone finely was at the boy and we started to go down my goggles were filling up with water and I could not tighten them so I resurfaced to get our instructor to help me.

She sent me back to the boat thinking she was coming after me to help. I waited 2 minutes and Jess and Taylor came swimming back. Jess was crying; she was so scared and Taylor also because she could not find me. We found out that our instructor was not coming and that I had missed out on a great dive because she would not pull one strap! Not happy we are all safe and sound now but in the moment we were not happy.

Emma

xx

Day 4 - SEBASTIAN'S AWESOME DAY!!!!

the weather was a bit cloudy as we headed to the HMS Adelaide dive site. I was a bit worried because the waves were bigger than yesterday and we had the tiniest boat in history as transport. Some people were nauseous and only did one dive that day the second dive was AMAZING.

Rachel, one of the instructors and me were buddies together because I was the only non-advanced diver in the second group. We went from the captains chair to the front of the boat - slight titanic moment. We then went into the actual ship down one level to 24 metres from the surface and we swan through that level heading back towards the anchor of our boat and I wasn't sea sick (win).

Back at camp I saved Akael's steak from a kookaburra using my awesome ninja skills, then I caught a fork on my shoe before it hit the ground and I had the best calamari and chips ever.

Its raining now and me and Jacobs tent leaks...(sigh)(^_^)

Sebastian

Day 2 Imogen

So today, the second day of our lovely scuba diving and sailing year 11 class trip, we were booked into diving with the seals. But unfortunately, the weather was not nice to us, and ruined our plans. Some of us were very annoyed, someone shed a tear. And some of us pretended to ball their eyes out, just cos they could... YES, that was me! Hiiiiihiiii :D

So we dived anyway, in a different location to the seals. Patrice and I were buddied up, both of us rather fearful of diving. Neither of us were that keen on it, getting into our wetsuits we wondered why we were doing such a thing for only 30 minutes under water. So much work! And bloody Sebastian, after huffing and puffing getting into his wetsuit, he was the only one who managed to look good. Seriously, he could wear anything, put on a potato sack as a top and manage to pull if off. That boy could be a model :)

Well well well, on our first dive, Patrice was having problems with her ears. She had trouble equalising, which was not the best. What did not help was her current state of health, a bit of the flu has been running through her family, and lucky her it caught on to her as well. That little bugger! So yeah, we were nearing the end of the first dive, and Patzy couldn't equalise properly. She stopped to try solve the problem, and as we were both trying to solve it, we slowly ascended a bit. After all was good again, we looked around for our group. To start with, we couldn't see them, but then I spotted scuba tanks and we both swam over. They had already started to ascend, so we just joined in. As our heads popped out of the water, first breaths of cold air entering our lungs, we looked around, and realised the group we had attached ourselves to, actually was not ours. We had found the advanced group, and just tagged along. Patzy and I looked at each other, we burst out into fits of laughter. The laughter didn't stop for a while, carrying on for several minutes. It stopped, but then started up again not too long after. Laughter escaping my mouth as I reached the boat, stepping up the ladder getting out of the water. The skipper was not too pleased, maybe he needs a good laugh himself :)

Day 1 Claire

As we left our family and home life behind, we started off south driving for all of about 3 hours, which isn't that much compared to the other trips that we have done. And the complaining started after about 15 minutes of the bus ride. We were not even out to the hill district and the first thing I thought is, this is going to be a long trip, great.

We tried as best as possible to create our own fun but without our 'gizmo's' I don't think we were having much success. W actually had to listen and talk to each other. How stone age.

We stopped at the a servo after about 1 ½ hours of driving, which was a relief.

So after the road trip we finally came to the destination of Jervis Bay. We set our camp site up with our tents and food supplies and so on and so forth.

As we got here there was so many animals: crimson rosellas, king parrots, wallabies and kangaroos and they where so tame; the king parrots even ate out of peoples palms, but after a while the birds and the possums started to get really annoying they where eating our food.

We went to the beach near our camp to check it and the boys lit a fire at night.

class 11 scuba trip

We go live on Monday 5th September. Join us on our class trip to Hervey Bay.

cheers

Stefan