The Great Barrier Reef is filled with wildlife such as dugong, green turtles, dolphins and whales, more than 1500 species of fish, 4000 types of mollusk and more than 200 species of bird life. It is made up of more than 3000 reefs with lots of beautiful islands and idyllic coral cays. It is the largest coral reef in the world, and is found in the Coral Sea. It is about 2,000 km long and is separated from the mainland by a shallow lagoon up to 161 km wide. The reef is composed of hundreds of individual reefs and has many islets, coral gardens, and unusual marine life. In some places it is more than 122 m thick.
Some ways of viewing the reef are snorkeling or scubas diving.
Great Barrier Reef region is one of the last places left in the world that can offer you peace and tranquillity, life, laughter, sunshine, and a truly breathtaking diversity of natural treasures and pristine environments.
By Peter Ward
(Source http://www.wcmc.org.uk:80/protected_areas/data/wh/gbrmp.html)
"The New Australia and New
Zealand Encyclopedia"
Welcome to our 'Home Page' for this year Millennium Internet Project. This year Truscott Street classrooms have been studying 'The Environment'. 4S decided to take a holiday to the Great Barrier Reef for a more relaxing term and looked at a range of issues that affect the 'Great Barrier Reef'.
While we were at The Great Barrier Reef we wrote a narrative (or fictional story) one particular day, because we were all too sore and sunburnt from our deep-sea Fishing trip the day before. We thought you might be interested so we have included these for your pleasure.
We would have liked
to show you some of our photos but we could not find our cameras up there
so we decided to draw our favorite sights. This way we can still share
our journey with you. We did manage to take some photos of our trip to
Camp Camira so we have included those in our Web Site. We hope you enjoy
our Web Site...
