Bart Bear's Blog

This is the Yellow Submarine that takes you for an underwater ride around the reef at Bali Hai. To be really accurate, it is a semi-submersible vessel. The passengers sit in a room with glass walls a couple of metres below the surface where they can see what's happening underwater. Jason, the captain, drives from up the top of the tower. He wears polaroid glasses and from up there he can see deeper into the water than the boat needs, so he can steer right up close to the reef and give the people and small bears great views of the corals and fish. Dave sits down with the passengers and tells them about the things they are seeing. One problem with photos of things underwater is that they always look pale and blue. That's because water soaks up the red colour and to get photos that show the real colours you have to take strong lights with you. Dad has some good coral pix, you may have seen some of them earlier on my blog, so I will put more of them up sometime.
If you want to know more about this great trip, check out the web page at http://www.yellowsub.com.au and if you go on the trip tell them Bart sent you.

Labels: boats, Hamilton Is, Queensland