Spotted these not so little angelfish playing tag!🐠
#angelfish #marinelifeprotection #tagyourit #marinediscoveriescairns
Despite the weather last month not playing nice on the surface, as you can see, it certainly didn’t affect the conditions underwater!
Last month saw our biggest group of interns ever joining us at #marinediscoveriescairns and we had a brilliant time teaching them various survey techniques and getting some invaluable data that is needed after last summers mass bleaching event.
This months interns are playing guinea pigs and helping us run trials of a brand new survey. So you really never know what you’ll be up to on one of work placements but what we can guarantee is that you’ll be carrying out important and needed work.
#greatbarrierreef #underwater #thisisqueensland #marinebiology #workplacement #internship #marinebiologyinternship #reef #cairns #lovethereef #womensupportingwomen #womeninstem #girlswhodive
Little things truly are under appreciated on a reef, and we can often see why when there are turtles and sharks cruising around!
But it’s always important to slow down and look for the small things in life, sometimes they can be the prettiest!
#marinediscoveriescairns #greatbarrierreef #thisisqueensland #underwater #marinediscoveries #nudibranch #flatworm #macrophotography #macro #reef #coral #littlethingsmatter
Just another day on the reef, making a pest of ourselves around cleaning stations hoping that if we are still enough, they might think we’re a big fish and clean us too! So far it hasn’t worked… maybe we need to work on our camouflage?
#marinediscoveriescairns #greatbarrierreef #underwater #thisisqueensland #camouflage #reef #marinebiology #cleaning #marinediscoveries #cairns #blowingbubbles
There’s something so soothing about watching corals sway in the surge. Leather corals take in water to make themselves rigid or let out water to give themselves a smaller surface area.
That means, if there is a huge storm or cyclone coming, they can make themselves really small to stop the bigger waves and surges from knocking them off the substrate!
#corals #coral #greatbarrierreef #thisisqueensland #cairns #marinediscoveriescairns #underwater #soothing #natureinmotion
It’s nice when your anemone gets a friend!
This anemone has a mini anemone species growing just next to it and although it is not one of the species that anemone fish will live in, it’s awesome to spot on the reef. Anemones can be anything from 1m across to only a few centimetres wide.
#anemone #anemonefish #reef #coralreef #underwater #greatbarrierreef #marinediscoveriescairns #marinebiology #marinediscoveries #lovethereef #cairns #friend #bestfriends
Interrupted a very important nap here, sorry turtle!
Don’t worry, we left it to get back to its very important task of the day and it quickly went back to sleep!!
Did you know turtles can sleep for around 4 hours and hold their breath by lowering their heart rate so they don’t need to breathe as much?
#marinediscoveriescairns #greatbarrierreef #underwater #reef #thisisqueensland #marinebiology #turtle #turtles #lovethereef #underwaterphotography
Cruising into the weekend…. With the weather as nice as it is, for the first time in a long time, all of our team will be out having fun days at the reef this weekend!
What are your plans?
#underwater #marinediscoveriescairns #marinebiology #underwaterphotography #marinediscoveries #itstheweekend #reef #greatbarrierreef #cairns #lovethereef #thisisqueensland
I know the way! Follow me!
Bumphead parrotfish often swim in large schools and can be found cruising around the reef together, eating everything in their paths.
#bumphead #bumpheadparrotfish #parrotfish #fish #greatbarrierreef marinediscoveries #marinediscoveriescairns #underwater #underwaterphotography #thisisqueensland #underwaterlife #marinebiology #marinebiologyfacts
This beautiful lady was in no rush what’s so ever to get to the surface! The great thing about turtles is that if you are calm, so are they, and that way you get to have the best interactions with them! Always keep your distance, keep quiet and stay pretty still and B they might hang around and let you watch them!
#turtle #marinediscoveriescairns #marinediscoveries #underwater #greatbarrierreef #underwater_is_life #lovethereef #reef #coral #marinebiology #marinebiologyfacts #turtles
This week has seen the sun make a dramatic comeback here in Cairns, the water temp is on its way down and our April internship project started! All things that require celebration! 🎉 ☀️ What have you been up to this week?
#sunsout #marinediscoveries #internship #pufferfish #greatbarrierreef #underwater #underwaterphotography #naturalworld #lovethereef #fish #coral #reef #coralreef #naturephotography #underwatervideo #cairns #queensland #marinebiology
Cuttlefish mimic their surroundings, right? Kind of!
As you can see from this gorgeous creature, she’s not mimicking the coral around her at all. Instead she’s mimicking what is directly underneath her. This makes spitting cuttlefish when snorkelling quite tricky as they mimic the substrate under them and when we look at them from the top down, they are perfectly camouflaged!
Have you seen a cuttlefish? Were you diving or snorkelling?
#cuttlefish #marinediscoveriescairns #marinediscoveries #greatbarrierreef #underwater #underwater_is_life #underwaterphotography #marinebiologylife #marinebiologyfacts #marine #thisqueensland #lovethereef #cairns #queensland
