Haley

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="1ccd05a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>DRUMBEAT</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="DRUMBEAT"><B>home</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Brian">Brian</A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Linda">Linda</A>   |   <B>Haley</B>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Damon">Damon</A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Millie">Millie</A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="1cdd2123.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Haley</I></div> <div> hey, my name is Haley (obviously), I was born in Proserpine hospital in Queensland on 26th April 1993.</div> <div> I do home-schooling with Groves Christian College Distance Ed.</div> <div> there's ups and downs to home schooling, I think the best thing about it is that you can finish your work quick and go do whatever, but the bad thing about it is  I dont get to see my friends very often.</div> <div> No social life is really not my thing, lol.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4c84c580.jpg" border=0 width="332" height="600" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="0">Below are my fav photos from our marion reef trip.</div> <bR> <div> Recently I did a modelling course that went for 6 weeks. Yeh so last weekend I went for a photo shoot on daydream island.</div> <div> I'll put some of the pictures from that day on here when I get them.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> 4 December 2006</div> <bR> <div> We were anchored at Fitzroy reef/laggon, and it was low tide, </div> <div> dad and I decided to go for a snorkel, we loaded the dinghy and took off to the reef.</div> <div> We jumped in the water, dad had his spear gun with him so I was keeping an eye out for sharks and fish.</div> <div> It was amazing, the coral was really good,  but the coral trout! they were everywhere! Everywhere you looked there was one sitting there looking at you,</div> <div> so dad was shooting away and I was doing a full circle every time heard the speargun going off.</div> <div> we were out in about 10 meters of water and dad points out a grey reef shark cruising around underneath us. then all of a sudden he was pointing behind me, I turned and there was a HUGE turtle coming towards me! He was about 1.5 meters including his head and tail, he was about a meter away from me and I was starting to get a little nervous because he was still coming towards me.</div> <div> Then when I could almost reach out and touch him he turned and swam to my right, he sort of hung around for a while but he eventually took off.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="c6c70770.jpg" border=0 width="368" height="375" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="40" VSPACE="0">So dad started shooting fish again and we had about 4 trout by now. We occasionally saw that shark hanging around, he was about 2 meters long.</div> <div> we started swimming further from the dinghy and we came to a little sandy patch that was teaming with life,</div> <div> there were trout there too. dad shot one but it was a gut shot and got off,  it went into a cave so dad went an shot another one,</div> <div> he kept that one so we started back towards the dinghy which was a fair way off now, he pointed out the shark again to warn me.</div> <div> We were swimming to the dinghy now and every 5-10 seconds I would turn to see if the shark was following.</div> <div> I was swimming a little bit behind dad who was trying to hold the fish in the air,</div> <div> I turned and jolted, the shark was about a meter away and coming towards me fast, I screamed (underwater) but dad had his head out of the water and didnt hear me,  the shark was swimming about a meter away and below, it was picking up pace, and my scream must have stopped it from coming at me, I was  shaking from the adrenalin now wich probably  wasn't helping.</div> <div> I screamed again because it had picked up its pace again and had its pectril fins down, this time I got dads attention, I swam up to dad and we were both turning every 2 seconds to see were he was, dad pointed to the dinghy and i made no hesitation in getting there.</div> <div> I got out and sat in the dinghy thanking God that that hadn't turned into something nasty.</div> <div> yeh that had definately put my nerves on end.</div> <div> we went home then.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>