Day of the dugong

Hey Becky here...marine biologist, dive instructor and the baby of the bunch!!

So it was another early start today and the sun was beaming down from the get go!Excited to get started after our day off we were all starting to miss hard work ;) alex and I (the dream team) started off up top on the frame on a desperate search for our pink pals!!

Shift ended and still no humpback dolphin sightings! B ut we swapped around and before long "SIGHTING"...we all jumped up and saw nothing...so concluded it was our first dugong sighting of the day! Ok, so it wasn't a dolphin but it was still a rare sighting of the illusive dugong so few have the privilege to encounter. After a short pause we set off again on our quest!!

As the day went on we realised today was definitely going to be the day of the dugong!!One particular animal came really close and wiggled his bum at us before dipping back down to have a nice munch on some juicy seagrass.

We searched and searched but it seemed that the dolphins day off was in fact today and they had put 6 lovely dugongs out for us to see instead haha! Hopefully tommorrow they will be up bright and early coming to say hello for Calvin and I's last day with the team!

That's all for tonight will write our last goodbye tommorrow...if they can get us to leave that is :P