Very poor showing.
With that in mind we recently spent a week visiting the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns.
Xan and Zak during a snorkeling trip, heading down to check out a clam on the ocean floor:
I am not in any way a marine biologist, but from my recollections when I was diving on the reef last... there are some serious problems there. The colour of coral is so much more subdued that what it used to be. When Ruth and I were there last, the fish were hard to spot, because there was so much colour around. Now they show up vivid and bright in their dull surroundings...
We got to have a good look around, as well as the snorkeling, we had a couple of scuba dives as well.
Here are Ruth and Zak in a sea of bubbles of my rapidly consumed air!
