There used to be crevasses overlaid with large pink plate corals just beyond the boat where you jump off into the lagoon at John Brewer reef, and so I never made it around to the reef front proper – at least not down the sandy front to a depth of 22 … [Read more...] about Part 4. Golden Gorgonians & So Many Fishes – John Brewer Reef, April 2024
Part 3. New Growth – Central Great Barrier Reef, April 2024
There might be 3,000 coral reefs but what makes a special reef, what makes John Brewer Reef the jewel in the crown considering the central region of the Great Barrier Reef – something of greater value amongst other valuable things? This coral reef … [Read more...] about Part 3. New Growth – Central Great Barrier Reef, April 2024
Davies Reef – Part 2, Central Great Barrier Reef, April 2024
Last Wednesday, after diving Wheeler, Lynch and Chicken reefs we made it to Davies. I particularly wanted to visit this reef as the Australian Institute of Science (AIMS) has a weather station here at Davies. Stuart put his drone up and got … [Read more...] about Davies Reef – Part 2, Central Great Barrier Reef, April 2024
Wheeler, Chicken, Lynch – Central Great Barrier Reef, April 2024. Part 1.
The corals in the central region of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered through this last summer with some bleaching and also damage from cyclone Kirrily. There are seasons under the sea, just as there are on land – and in life. Even though large … [Read more...] about Wheeler, Chicken, Lynch – Central Great Barrier Reef, April 2024. Part 1.
Easter Sunday, Give to the Sepik
I was raised a Protestant, and from a young age it was expected I would serve, that I would be humble and that I would help other people. I can’t escape that, the values in which I was raised. My daughter has married a man, Christian Wright, who … [Read more...] about Easter Sunday, Give to the Sepik
Fancy Fins Didn’t Help with the Visibility
According to the mainstream media it’s the southern Great Barrier Reef that has been hit hardest with coral bleaching, and particularly the corals in the Capricorn region that includes Great Keppel Island. I have a home in Yeppoon, which is just a … [Read more...] about Fancy Fins Didn’t Help with the Visibility