The Great Barrier Reef!
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| Individual reefs are composed of the accumulated skeletal remains of plants and animals, supporting a veneer of living plants and animals. An estimated 1500 species of fish and more than 300 species of hard reef-building corals, 4000 mollusc species and 400 species of sponge have been identified. |
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| With this boat we went to the outer reef, close to Australia's continental shelf. |
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| Jennie, our daughter. | You could dive off the platform, snorklling gear was provided. |
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| The Quicksilver Subs, with observation windows just below water-level, glide through the magnificent coral canyons and sunlit valleys to give even nonswimmers a close-up look at the incredible underwater world. | |
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| The last photo shows the very poisonous stonefish, if you step barefoot on it, you have only minutes to live. | |
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| The Garden of Eden was never this beautiful! It's another word, with plants and sea creatures. There' s animals that look like plants and plants no artist could ever recreate the beauty that words cannot describe.You will be spell-bound of the variety of corals, staghorn, plate, gorgonia, anemones and hydroids in a myriad of shapes and colours....and amongst them the starfish, the clams and the shellfish. A true underwater wonderland. | ||
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