Moreton Island

             This past weekend I went up to Moreton Island for a full day of activities. After traveling several hours to get there by bus and then by ferry, we finally made it to the island. We then took a large garbage-truck-like bus through the sandy island into the desert. We climbed up a large mountain of sand where we were given small planks of wood. From the top of the sand hill it looked really high and somewhat scary. First we had to wax the bottom of the board so that it would easily slide down the hill. The first time I rode down the hill, I lay face-first on the board. I had to raise my elbows and the board up off the sand so that sand didn’t come flying into my face. It was a lot of fun and it definitely gave me an adrenaline rush. After going down on my stomach, both forwards and backwards, I switched to doing stand-up. We moved to a less steep area of the hill to prevent us from killing ourselves. This was actually a lot more fun and much easier than I thought it would be.

              After sand boarding all morning, we moved to the water for some snorkeling. We went snorkeling in an area full of sunken and abandoned ships that was also inhabited by a great variety of animals. First we were given our wet suits which were required so that we wouldn’t get our skin caught on the ships, get stung, or touch something we shouldn’t. We then put on our masks and made sure that we could breathe easily and that we did not have any water leak into our masks. The flippers and the gloves were the last things we put on after which we all looked like something from an alien world. While snorkeling around the sunken ships we saw many fish, especially zebra fish, and a Wobbelong shark.