Great Barrier Reef Pics

[beets]

Hey guys,
thought you'd be interested in seeing these photos of my 10000000000000 Gallon tank...
Nah, I did a boat trip out to the reef the other day and thought you'd like to see some pics of alot of our favourite fish/corals in their natural environment. If you ever come to Australia you must visit the Great Barrier Reef (off the North East coast) as it is simply awesome. Oh, and make sure you buy your fish from a LFS that practices environmentally friendly fish capture/breeding so that we can enjoy the reef indefinately (as long as global warming doesn't kill it first

)

 

[demartini]

I want to go... it's so pretty!

 

[michaeltx]

me too. I would love to be able to go on a vacation to the GBR but not this year maybe next. Great pictures though!!!!!!!
Mike

 

[jayc]

Me too!! Great pics!! Can u post some more?
-Josh

 

[watson3]

Amazing...Thanks for sharing

 

[gnorman]

first pic is my favorite. just amazing

 

[mopar9012]

im going to go there some day....Was that where steve, the crocodile hunter, died?

 

[bonita69]

WOW How many pounds of live rock is in your tank!!! :notsure: :thinking:

Can we get a full tank shot????? :hilarious :hilarious :hilarious
Very nice thanks for sharing!! I wish I could go dive, I have never seen that part of my world and it just has to be a chilling experience!

 

[bonita69]

hey what you think this is? Is that a fish or my eyes picking something else out here?

 

[emeralcrab]

You are so lucky....someday that is my dream....to swim with the fishy's.....off the great barrier reef.

 

[rabid frog]

Nice Pictures. Thank you for sharing. :jumping:

 

[beatlesfan]

WOW i can't ait until i can go. Most my money's booked up on the Alaska cruise.

 

[30-xtra high]

wow... i wouldn't be able to contain myself... i would end up grabbing corals, taking siccors with me and fragging everything. maybe catchin fish if i could.. i hope i get there someday

 

[catawaba]

Speechless.
Nice to see a Moorish Idol where it belongs.

 

[reefboy12]

I plan on taking a trip in 3 years once I graduate from high school. I believe that orage fish in the first pick is a big eye sqiurell fish but i could be wrong.....I LOVE THE MORISH IDOL!!!!.....well I guess these picks will have to please me for the time being....great pics....also could you imagine keeping all that birdnest coral? hahahahahahah
-Kevin

 

[reefreak]

That is just simply awesome. Thank you for sharing.

 

[wangotango]

now thats where i need to go. hawaii and the caribbean are a LOT less impressive. how is the gbr doing with pollution and what not compared to other reefs? is the life good all over? amazing pictures by the way

-Justin

 

[rbrockm1]

your so lucky you live there. got any more

 

[beets]

Thanks everyone for the nice comments - the photos don't do it justice though... it really is amazing.
Mopar, i guess it is within a few hundred k's of where Steve Irwin got harpooned - didn't see any big sting rays though.
WangoTango - I didn't notice any obvious pollution issues, and the way it was run was environmentally friendly - they roped off the actual reef which meant you could swim up to it, but not over it which minimised the chance of people kicking/standing on it and damaging it. I hadn't been before so I can't say if the pollution issue had affected it much.
And as for more pics... well, you've all been very good lately

 

[curtis1158]

Chris,
Great pictures. Thanks for sharing. Loved the million gallon tank comment. My sister in law went to the GBR a few years back. The story I rememeber is that she was told to keep her hands out of the giant clams-probably 3 feet across. If they clossed, the divers wouldn't be able to get your hand out before the air ran out.