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Townsville is home to the world’s largest living coral reef aquarium that offers a great insight into the biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef. It’s home to over a hundred coral and fish species, along with sea stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, and many other forms of sea life.
Boat and Helicopter
If you don’t want to explore the Great Barrier Reef from afar, you can see it up close by joining one of the boat and helicopter tours from Townsville. Diving and snorkeling tours are also pretty popular with the tourists visiting this city.
Museum of Underwater Art
One of Townsville’s most recently launched tourist attractions, MOUA is Australia’s only underwater museum at this point in time. Its main vision is to inspire and educate the globe about reef conservation through the art created by underwater sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor.
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Known for palm-fringed beaches, coconut groves, and mountainous rainforests, Thailand’s second-largest island Koh Samui is full of colorful reefs that have a wide variety of marine life. You’ll find everything from whale sharks and manta rays to nudibranch and macro-critters.
Marsa Alam, Egypt
This Southern Egyptian town located on the Red Sea is known for its sandy beaches and coral reefs and it’s an amazing place to scuba dive. There are tons of fish that are every color imaginable.
Great Barrier Reef, Australia
The world’s largest coral reef system, the Great Barrier Reef, is located in the Coral Sea off the coast of Queensland, Australia. It has over 2,900 individual reeds and 900 islands. There are even hidden dive sites even though it’s one of the most popular dive locations in the world.
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Coral polyps are tiny colonial animals and their cells contain symbiotic algae. These polyps produce calcium carbonate which expands. Marine life grabs onto the colony and the pieces grow to create the reef, which is made up entirely of living organisms.
The Reef Is Home To The World’s Most Dangerous Marine Animal
The Great Barrier Reef is home to 30 species of dolphins and whales, 1,500 species of fish and 17 different kinds of sea snake. It is also home to the most dangerous marine animal to humans, and it is not a shark or a stingray. It is in fact the box jellyfish, which has a sting that is so painful, humans die of shock or heart failure before they can make it out of the water.
• This is probably one of the more bizarre things we learned about jellyfish. • Apparently their eyes are on the side of their body and all look inwards as they use their body as a lens to see through. Their eyes are grouped in six lots of four eyes. • Jellyfish are fast swimmers 
• Studies show that big box jellyfish can swim faster than any Olympic swimmer. • Jellyfish sleep at night 
• Scientists have only recently learned that jellyfish settle on the bottom of the ocean floor at night to sleep and then feed during the day. • Filmed and Edited by @istvan_zoboki_ from @crystalimageskohtao • Come visit Koh Tao and enjoy some of the most fantastic and safest scuba diving in the world. • Book OW & AOW and Videography Courses together! • We visit every #dive site around Koh Tao and operate up to 6 dive boats every day! • Follow us on Facebook ( @crystalimageskohtao ). • You can direct message for price enquiries on any of the diving and videography courses! Book early and come join in the fun! • #underwater #videooftheday #videography #divingkohtao #kohtaodiving #diveonkohtao #divingonkohtao #holidaykohtao #kohtaoholiday #kohtao #travelkohtao #divingthailand #divinginthailand #divethailand #thailanddiving @padi @gates.underwater @natgeo @bbc #boxjellyfish #boxjelly #scubadiverslife #underthesea #instafish #coral #reef #tropical #explore #discover #underwaterworldThe Reef Is Protected
In 1981, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A tourist tax of $6.50 is charged per person per day to help fund conservation. The reef attracts 2,000,000 visitors per year.
You Can View The Great Barrier Reef On Google Street View
When Google launched its Street View feature on maps, we all hunted down our streets and found our house. Since 2012, we have also been able to take a virtual tour through the Great Barrier Reef. It’s the perfect way to relax before bed.
There’s An Annual “Underwater Snowstorm”
Once a year, coral spawns in synchronicity. Colonies of coral polyps release billions of tiny eggs, creating an image not too dissimilar to an underwater blizzard or snowstorm. Scientists are still unsure exactly why this happens, but they can agree that it is rather spectacular.
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]]>Cage dive with Great White Sharks
This great underwater experience, made for people with a huge love for extreme things and too much adrenaline in their body, takes place off the Neptune Islands in Port Lincoln, South Australia. Dive into the crystal clear ocean water in a cage and have a selfie with one of the world’s biggest predator.
of me and Jumbo by @michaelmelford. ______________________________________ #shark #greatwhite #greatwhiteshark #dive #diving #scuba #honeymoon #excited #countdown #australia #howwemet #onassignment #natgeo #adventure #ocean #traveler #travel #travelwriter #instatravel #explore #explorer #wanderlust #writer #writers #writersofig #carriemiller_writer #christaylor_diverDive into the Great Barrier Reef
This activity is definitely on the “calmer activities” list. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system and one of the seven natural wonders, as well. It is an inevitable underwater destination with its picturesque coral reefs, beautiful and colorful fish. Here you can say “hi” to Nemo and Dory!
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The Crocosaurus Cove in the city of Darwin offers you a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The scary Cage of Death provides you with a fifteen-minute-long, unique, up close and personal view of Australia’s iconic and monstrous Saltwater Crocodiles.
. It’s an breathtaking adventure to go in the cage of death at the @crocosauruscove in Darwin 
I think they like me 
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