Summer High School Programs in Australia with Rustic Pathways

Live in the moment. It's cliché, but it is true; there will be some opportunities during the trip to use your phone, but make an effort to disconnect and engage with the beautiful world around you. Two weeks seems like a long time, but it will fly by and you should make sure to take advantage of the amazing opportunities being presented to you.

Our schedule during this trip tended to switch day today, but for the majority of the trip, we were on a liveaboard diving up to five times a day!

We would wake up super early to catch our first sunrise dive which would have us going under before the sun had risen, and resurfacing during sunrise. We had three more dives throughout the day and then finished off with a night dive using torches to see.

In between our dives, we would whale-watch, play cards, have impromptu dance parties on the deck, and most importantly, eat delicious meals to help fuel us.

I went into this trip with a few main fears: sharks, heights, the dark, and being deep underwater. Obviously, these seem like a terrible combination for a diving trip but I was surrounded by the most supportive and amazing leaders and friends on this trip. They all helped me to overcome my fears and come home with a newfound appreciation for the ocean and all of its amazing creatures.

If I were to have done anything differently during my trip, I definitely would have packed less.

I wore basically the same two bathing suits every day and opted for comfy clothing most of the time. Since we moved around locations quite a bit, it was definitely hard to relocate with a massive duffle especially coming home with all of my new goodies.