The Great Barrier Reef

Traveler Thick Black Line. An odyssey
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- Jun 15, 2017
- 🌬 22 °C
- Altitude: Sea level
- Queensland Great Barrier Reef -16.41893, 145.8418316°25’8” S 145°50’31” E
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Day 93
The Great Barrier Reef
June 15, 2017 ⋅ 🌬 22 °C
Why did I come to Port Douglas? To get a reef trip 😎
I could wait until I'm further south but Tropical Cyclone Debbie caused a lot of damage down there, so today was the day.

I went for a full day trip with Wavelength to the outer reef - that's 90 mins each way and 3 snorkels. The great thing that's different about Wavelength is they have marine biologists on board who give a couple of entertaining and informative talks during the day. Just fab!

I'll do even more pics when I have more power and better internet, whenever that is!Read more
Traveler I'm so happy with this. It's a parrotfish (don't know the exact type yet) being cleaned by cleaner wrasse at a cleaning station. Whatever fish needs a few old scales nibbled off, or parasites removed goes to the local cleaning station and goes into a sort of trance while the cleaner wrasse do their work. They even clean inside mouths ... so there's some sort of understanding that it's not ok to eat your cleaner. I hung around this spot for a few minutes watching several fish turn up for a valet. I've wanted to see a cleaning station for ages - of all the creatures and things I saw, this is the one that made my day
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Traveler I'm not sure how, but this turtle exuded serenity. I stopped filming so I could just watch it swim away. Magical.
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Traveler Hmm, large orange parrotfish - to be identified!
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