by Alison Jones | Mar 7, 2020 | Coral
Coral bleaching occurs when reef building corals shed their tiny algae to relieve stress and to increase their chances of survival. This spectacular aerial image of bleached branching corals at Big Peninsular was taken by Max Allen Jnr from Freedom Fastcats. Keppel...
by Alison Jones | Jan 22, 2020 | Coral
Visitors to Monkey Reef off Great Keppel Island may see patches of bleached or seemingly dead corals. After a run of days with light winds and water temperatures peaking during the mid afternoons above 28 degrees C in the last 3 weeks, The bleaching sensitive...
by Alison Jones | Sep 29, 2019 | Coral
Corals at Monkey Beach reef off Great Keppel Island were exposed to the air during the spring low tides at around 3am and 3pm on the 28th and 29th of September 2019. These extreme ‘spring’ low and high tides occur montly at the time of the New Moon but...
by Alison Jones | Sep 29, 2019 | Everything else
Coral will grow just about anywhere! This diver’s mask lay submerged for months and has become home to sponges, soft corals, turf algae, macro algae and what looks like a cyanobacteria. It shows how opportunistic marine animals and plants can be....
by Alison Jones | Jun 8, 2019 | Everything else
Scott Gardner was returning from an 18-metre dive in the Keppels on 12 November 2006 when he heard a cracking noise. He saw a tuskfish hovering just above a sand patch near a rock grasping a cockle in its mouth. His photos show the fish grasping the shell in its jaws...
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