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Ham Reef – & our 100 magic miles
Ham reef cay is just one of the numerous patches of sand and exposed coral rock that pops up along my favourite 100nm edge of the GBR. This barmy day the pristine purity at Ham Reef was breathtaking. We anchored just 50m away over soft sand and leapt into the crystalline water, dog and all.…
Read MorePELICAN ISLAND – INSIDE 100 MAGIC MILES
Pelican Island island is in the centre of a beautiful cruising area stretching between Morris island down past the Hedge reef sandbank. There is a well-developed sand spit here affording a good anchorage. On our second day, a nature show came to us with a little crocodile and hundreds of marine birds perched on it…
Read MoreWishbone Reef 2011/2020
We are about to cast off for our 2020 cruise north to Wishbone reef 🙂 I recall watching two Nudibranchs (Nembrotha Kukaryana) cavorting in 5m of water. Wicked lovers one day and still at it the next. Nudibranchs being hermaphrodites are both male and female. Note the blue genitalia on their front right. The image…
Read MoreAshmore Reef QLD – cruising 2011/2018
Ashmore Reef is a large Atoll 23nm east from the GBR and not far from its end point coming from Australia. Being so isolated it has a certain adventurous feel about it. In 2011 we cruised east from Masig Island in the Torres Strait, entering the Coral Sea via the rather…
Read MoreLawadi PNG 2017
Diving around Lawadi Here, within just 500 meters the marine diversity is mind-blowing. Perhaps the most famous muck diving available anywhere in the world, a short ride in our dinghy to a magnificent coral garden, or drift among underwater mountain peaks spiralling up from the abyss. All this in clear, warm…
Read MoreEast Cape PNG 2018
We enjoyed returning to Milne bay’s East Cape in 2017. This time we had an additional crew member, Al a native PNG diving guide. Our mission was to: find some new diving locations, locate and photograph the iconic Pygmy Seahorse, and could we find that undiscovered shipwreck near Nuakata?. Well, the first two items…
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