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Pretty purple coral sunscreen!
Heron Island, Day 2

April 14th 2008
We had an early breakfast and got ready for a reef walk. A reef walk basically involves putting on your watershoes and walking a path around the coral clumps out on the reef. At low tide, you'll only be as deep as your knees, but at high tide you'd be floating over the reef (there were great low tides when we were at Heron, good for us, not as pleasant for the corals who would get exposed--they ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Great Barrier Reef

Australian Flag Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more
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