Diving on the Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef - Finding Nemo

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March 6th 2009
This trip turned out to be the best and the worst, most awesome and disappointing all at the same time. I qualified as a scuba diver in Koh Tao with the express purpose of diving on the Great Barrier Reef. Top three on my list to see at the reef were; a turtle, a shark (preferably a reef shark not a great white!) and a little Nemo (a cute little orange and white stripped clown fish made famous ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Great Barrier Reef

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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