Above and below photography with turtles 🐢🐢

The other week we spent two nights on the beautiful Lady Elliot Island off the coast of Harvey Bay in Queensland, Australia.

Lady Elliot has just been crowned the best snorkeling location in the world by Lonely Planet, and I can definitely agree.

I will do a more detailed post about our trip there but for now I would like to share some photos I took with my YI action camera with a dome housing.

The dome housing helps to creat the above and below water photos. And this is something I have always wanted to try and shoot.

A turtle below the water and the land out of the water.

And the lagoon on the east side of Lady Elliot Island is the perfect location to try and get these shots at high tide. As there are always sea turtles in the lagoon.

There was a bit of a current running south. So I would jump in the water at the top of the beach and float down with the current and hope to find a turtle before I got to the end of the beach. Then hope out of the water and walk back up the beach and repeat.

And man was I in luck!!

I found a couple of turtles, including this green sea turtle.

It's so cool to just swim along with these turtles; they really don't mind being so close to people. It's a feeling that never gets old. 🙂

It was hard at first to work out if I was getting the right angle for the shots of the turtle and the land as there is a lot going on while trying to take these photos.

Snorkeling, the current, and a wild animal, so it's definitely not the easiest shot.

But in the end, I really like how these shots turned out. 🐢🙌

So stay tuned for my post on our recent trip to Lady Elliot.