Great Barrier Reef

Great Barrier Reef -  Majestic Underwater Life

The Great Barrier Reef is the only one of its kind in the world, which is one of Nature’s gifts with her signature on it to Australia. It is the most extensive, the most captivating world of coral reefs in which their variety and those of the species of fish and the mollusks is the music of diversity. It is the largest living reef system on the planet. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia. It is a state icon of  Queensland, a special honour given to it by the Queensland National Trust.

It is all very strange, all the same interesting. In the world you left behind, there is the battle of the egos and the scramble to make it which is another name for competition. Here in Great Barrier Reef, the population of its inhabitants is beyond counting as everything is. Yet, here the air is fresh like a baby opening her eyes in the morning or the flower opening its buds or the four o’clock, one of them, just waking up. There is no scrambling here, no jostling for positions and hazzle and hurry have been thrown out if ever they existed here at all. Welcome to peace on earth, the heart of paradise.

For sure you would like to take a tour of these wonders on earth, the Great Barrier Reef which was  declared a World Heritage area in 1981 and added to the National Heritage List in 2007.

It is possible, we contend that it is true, that you have not given thought enough to the wonders in the world of corals and reefs and the coral reefs. Nor, even being an artistic mind, have imagined Nature building carpets under the sea whose choice of colours that beats the dance of colours of neon lights in the city, balloons at cultural festivals, beads that adorn the neck and the hand at special occasions.

At the Great Barrier Reef, the undersea waterlife of corals welcomes you to a social order in which a male can call itself the parents, the kind of claim that is strange but normal in the ecosystem of the corals and in which male and female also do mate too just as you have it in your world, the other world. There in their world they have the hills and the lowlands, indeed, a short visit to them is an immersion in a very lovely, lively landscape of fishes dancing with their tails, pouring out bubbles of water as part of their sport as they move around the hills and hillocks of the land inside-under the sea, strolling around the parks and the rendezvous of corals and reefs and other waterlife families. All this is happening in a stretch of land and see that could claim to be a town, indeed the coral reefs town.
Below, in a nutshell, is something dry but may be necessary.

• The Great Barrier Reef is over 2000 kilometers long
• It stretches from southern Queensland to beyond the northernmost tip of Australia, towards Papua New Guinea
• The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park covers an area half the size of Texas
• It's the only living structure that's visible from the moon
• Almost 3000 separate coral reefs and over 900 islands go towards making up the Great Barrier Reef
• The Reef is home to the planet's most complex ecosystem
• The Reef's origins date back to the last Ice Age