This is a first-person report from Judie Haynie on her recent live-aboard dive trip with Mike Ball Dive Adventures.I first met Mike Ball in Connecticut on a cold winter night in January 2007. Snow was piled up about three feet, around the local dive shop. About thirty of us ventured out to hear about diving Australia?s Great Barrier Reef. And we weren?t disappointed. His presentation to the dive club stirred the imagination, and raised the desire to make a journey to that far off land down under. There was no question about it, we were going to Australia...
