It has been nearly a week since I came back from Oz. Those last few days abroad were by far the best. I snorkelled in the Great Barrier Reef, it took a lot of guts for me to do that, and i probably wouldn't have if the guide hadn't pushed me in the water. Me and seven other people plus the one quide bobbed in the middle of the sea when a massive manta ray appeared, it was longer and wider than me! I've never seen seven people huddle so close in such a large space. It was a great sight and a rare one and what an experience!! What i wasn't prepared for in the water was the sheer force of the waves, and I am a very strong swimmer. One man (the seasick German - named so, because he was sick the whole way to the reef, in the reef! and back to land!Naturally no one swam anywhere near him) Anyway, he wasn't a strong swimmer and kept getting washed up onto the reef and dragged back away by the tide, so the quide had to pull out an inflatable ring and drag the seasick German all the way around the reef. That annoyed me big time...what if a shark came and tried to eat us, and our guide is looking after the man who can't swim or stop vomiting. I spent a lot of time looking for things that could eat or kill me in the water. I only spotted a few and thankfully they kept their distance from me. The biodiversity in the reef is beyond words. My photos of it are crap because the camera is crap and everything looks blue. But down there it is far from blue. Every colour of the rainbow is on the reef, the fish were in their thousands and a couple of us got a nice, but painful welcome from the flourescent parrot fish, in the form of blowing water into our ears then waiting and looking to see if any food came out of this new hole they had found. The fish range from tiny clown fish, who if you touch their home come out and see what you are, only to swim backwards even faster as soon as they see you to massive wrass who were nearly 3 metres long. I picked up a sea cucumber (it feels like a wet avocado) and was accompanied by small black and white stripy fish the whole time who thought my hair was a great hiding place (stupidly didn't tie it up) and coming out of the water an hour later and wrinkly like a prune, i wanted to go back in.
That was my last day, and on the Friday I did the 25 hour journey back to London, i didn't sleep and had the family from hell behind me whose kids screamed and kicked my chair nearly the whole time. I slept for three hours and couldn't force myself to eat the nasty plane food so when I arrived in London at 6am and it was raining, i felt more exhausted and was too tired to even bother standing out of the rain when waiting for the taxi.
Coming back to Bath i remembered that I still had 8,000 words to write and another film to make and a society to organise. It is Friday, and I stilll have 8,000 words to write, to make my final film and organise the society. I need another holiday!
I did however recieve some good news on the film front...Tim Middleton had written an email to Nic saying how impressed he was with Eco Campus and the AWM team, so all thumbs up there and I had the chance to meet him last night.
To Do for this week:
Everything.
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