Outer Great Barrier Reef, Cairns, QLD - Live Aboard
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| The Great Barrier Reef comprises of 2900 individual reefs and 71 coral cays and its ecosystem supports the greatest concentration of life on the planet. The outer reefs off of Cairns include Flynn Reef, Milln Reef, Thetford Reef and Pellowe Reef, are widely knoewn for their abundance and variety of marine life. MILN REEF Milln Reef offers a number of exciting dive sites such as Whale Bommie, Petaj Mooring, Swimming Pools I, Swimming Pools II and the Three Sisters to name a few.The Petaj dive site is home to resident turtles and white tip reef sharks. At the Swimming Pools you can see schools of diagonally banded sweetlips and nudibranchs to name a few. Milln reef offers excellent wall dives and swim throughs and is great for night diving. Some of the walls are full of sleeping parrot fish in their mucus sacks, turtles and barracudas and the occasional bull ray. Whale bommie provides you with a good dive in depths exceeding 20 metres. A great site to dive at night whereone can often see sleeping turtles, reef crabs, painted lobsters and some great soft corals, gorgonian fans. FLYN REEF Flynn reef is one of the most popular of the Cairns Outer Great Barrier Reefs to dive. Popular dive sites include Tracy's Bommie, Gordon's Mooring, Tennis Court and the Coral Gardens. These sites offer excellent wall dives, swim-throughs, overhangs and night diving. Expect to see an abundance of marine life combined with plenty of hard corals such as staghorn, table, plate and boulder coral heads and many species of soft corals. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrier_Reef |
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| Diving Activity at Outer Great Barrier Reef, Cairns, QLD | |||
| 6 dive sites at this City / Island: | |||
| Flynn Reef, Gordon's Mooring | Flynn Reef, Tracy's Bombie | Hastings Reef, Jorgey's Patch | Milln Reef - Petaj Bombie | Milln Reef - Swimming Pools | Milln Reef - Whale Bombie | |||
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