Cameron Wilson diving on key sites in the world is developing the giant clam, soft and hard corals, fish, and shark.
Great Barrier Reef is in a kind of Purgatory public relations, as almost every global warming Conference, any estimate of sea level rise and any warnings about coral bleaching include the statement: “The Great Barrier Reef could become extinct in our lifetime!”
The planet’s largest living organism has a 2000-kilometer underwater canary-in-the-coalmine, the death of an abbreviation for prediction of environmental Armageddon.
Apart from this, I embarked on my first visit to the reef in eight years are optimistic that the fish, corals and other marine life hadn’t heard the news and swim, eat and procreating much as usual.
Most of the millions of people who visit the reef each year leave between June and August, but the coral is really the best just before the monsoon summer when quieter seas bring incredible under visibility. Similarly, because of the famous city of Cairns as a gateway to the reef, often assumed to be a place to stay.