Great Barrier Reef

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

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

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.

I was nervous about taking Sky News Australia presenter and the Editor of The Spectator Australia, Rowan Dean, to John Brewer Reef. Would we really be able to find the famous coral – the badly bleached coral that had featured in The Guardian as … [Read more...] about Café Latte Coral & The Bump Heads

My Aunty Bunty used to work in a factory in Dundee, in Scotland, with thousands of other women all adding colour to black and white photographs. She was allowed to be creative; the idea was to make people happy. So, for example, she could add … [Read more...] about Removing Colour, for a Sick Story