Volunteering in Australia!: A day in the city

Sunday, we had a lot of rain. We did the most necessary cleaning and feeding, we were all soaked from top to bottom by 9am.

Monday, we got a text from Kate at 7:30am she wrote “if Dave haven’t already picked you guys up you have a day off, since Kimberly is ill(sick) today.”

So, I figured what I have planned to do Wednesday I could do Monday instead. I changed clothes and went for a walk to the other side of the bay to see the “Maritime war museum”. When I got there, it was supposed to be 5$ entry but the lady said that due to technical issues I could have free entry, Jubiii. There was stories and models of everything from the flight war between Australia and japan to the history of “SS Yongola” a ship wreck I hope to dive soon. It was pretty cool and just next to the sea with a view over the bay.

On my way back, I got acai bowl for lunch and went out for some local shopping, I dropped off the couple of things I bought at the hostel and went to see the Reef hq aquarium. I saw a giant grouper (a fish species), reef sharks, nurse sharks and much more. They had a whole arear telling about how the Great barrier reef is dying, with the climate change and so on... One specific species in particular is really bad, “The Crown of thorns starfish (also known as cots)” which diet consists of corals. So far it has eaten 40% of the reef, and because of the increased nitrogen level in and around the reef there is an increased amount of plankton which means an increased number of cots that survive till adult stage. That is really bad, right now they don’t know how to react, other than collecting them and spray vinegar directly into the starfish to kill it. But they only do this in certain arears, they can’t do it in the whole reef.

Once I left the aquarium, I did some necessary grocery shopping and chilled the rest of the day at the hostel to be ready for diving Tuesday. I hung out with Kenzo and Carolina, they got an idear, if I could get a day off Monday we could go for a day trip. I was ready, just had to ask for a day off, but I had to do the waterfall trip on Saturday, but I will ask anyways to see.