I am Jason D and today I had snorkelling in the afternoon.

We collected our gear and bussed down to the river near Salmon Rocks. We had to put on 3 layers so walking down the board-walk was so exhausting! Mr den Otter and Mrs Beck attempted to stop us from just diving straight in but failed massively at that task. We got the gear on quickly once we had taken a quick dip, and we started the intro to snorkelling.

We did a bit of a swim around the edge of the river and them we had a game of Scarecrow tiggy in the water. I managed to find out the hard way of what the water tasted like after I tried to take a breath with a snorkel full of water. Yuk!! After we got out the wetsuits trapped a heap of the water in our legs, making it look like we were wearing bell-flared pants. I think Noah had the biggest with Graham and Rory both coming a close second in bell-flare size. Think 20-30cm!! When they took off the wetsuits they created a small river. Overall it was a really, really fun day!

By Jason

The other day 2A went down to the lake to go for an intro to snorkelling. We got down there with all our gear and chucked it all on. First, Ms Merritt went through the basics of it all and some of the more experienced taught the group how to duck dive. We started by just playing around in the water and then the group decided to go for a bit of a swim up the lake. Under the water was nothing, we couldn’t even see half a meter in front of us. When we got back I got out of the water and found out that the booties that we had to wear were all filled up with water. So I quickly got them off and jumped back in. At the end of the day we ended up just having a play around, we also had a little duck diving contest that was pretty funny.

Over all I think that everyone had a great time and everyone leant a lot about snorkelling. I also think that next time we will all be confident enough to go into the ocean, thank you to Ms Merritt and Mr Pfanner for taking the class.

Tyson - Mallacoota P-12 College