Splendours of the Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef as seen from a helicopter.

The Daintree estuary.

The reef attracts not only surfers and divers but also scientists, environmentalists and nature lovers.

The ocean puts on a show like no other: there are rainbow colours and everything in-between, fantastic and weird shapes, fluid and graceful movements.

The ocean puts on a show like no other: there are rainbow colours and everything in-between, fantastic and weird shapes, fluid and graceful movements.

The ocean puts on a show like no other: there are rainbow colours and everything in-between, fantastic and weird shapes, fluid and graceful movements.

The ocean puts on a show like no other: there are rainbow colours and everything in-between, fantastic and weird shapes, fluid and graceful movements.

The ocean puts on a show like no other: there are rainbow colours and everything in-between, fantastic and weird shapes, fluid and graceful movements.

The ocean puts on a show like no other: there are rainbow colours and everything in-between, fantastic and weird shapes, fluid and graceful movements.

A forest of corals, staghorn presumably, as seen from the semi-submersible.

The Great Adventures pontoon in the outer reef.

Ballooning over the Atherton tablelands before sunrise.

The Jungle Surfing Canopy Tour at the Daintree rainforest.

A koala with its cub.

A crocodile, an inhabitant of the Daintree river.

At the Wildlife Habitat theme park, kangaroos crowd around visitors much like pet dogs.

The pelican.

The magpie goose.

Strangler fig, Daintree rainforest.

The parakeet.

The cockatoo.

The wild kookaburra.

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The Great Barrier Reef as seen from a helicopter.
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