Helicoptor flight to Heron Island.
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Not the perfect weather we were hoping for, but better the helicoptor than a boat!
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Heron Island through the storm
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View of Wistari reef
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Coral on a grey day
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The bar from the air
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Meeting the locals
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Low tide at the bar
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Herons??? well egrets really
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A guitar shark, which is actually a ray, with bizarre wanna-be shark fins
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Reef walker
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Clam lips!
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Clam
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Clam
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Clam
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Hunting for the little fish
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We can see you hiding under there!
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A Blue linckia
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Sunset in the bar
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Full moon, and there was a lunar eclipse
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Full moon caused a big tidal range
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Vital fluids
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Pre dinner drinks
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Sunset
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Turtle swimming past the bar
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A bigger turtle past the bar
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A dusky nurse shark at dusk! Later in the week, Jan and I snorkelled with 8 of these!
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Tiny tracks were seen in the morning
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\"Wrong Way\" was a late hatching and was heading for the tenis court!!!
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\"Wrong Way\" swimming out to sea! See her again in 30 years!
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Morning walk
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View from the dive boat.
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The wreck of the Protector! Australias first navy ship, she was bought by South Australia, served in the Boxer rebellion, WWI and WWII, when she was damaged and scuttled as a break water.
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One of the locals
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Dive/Snokel boat
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Absolutely no idea what this is!
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One of the harbor residents
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Black tipped reef shark
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This was the view most afternoons from the jetty
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A beech comber
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An ex-ray at low tide!
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Just another sunset
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Sharks and humans mix in the harbour
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The harbour
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The volcanic ash from Chile made for purples sunsets
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Another shark
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Lots of sharks
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More sharks
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Egrets waiting for low tide
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A ray swims past a big pile of other rays
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Take off!
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The dive boat
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Jan snorkelling
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Bizzzzzilllllians of little fish - Chromas
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A shark sleeping in the cave
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An Eagle ray swims by. Tiny compared to the huge manta rays we saw the previous day.
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Turtle on the coral
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Plate coral
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Coral garden
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Sleeping Turtle
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Mother-in-law fish
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Sleeping turtle
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Three layers of rubber!!
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Is this camera working??
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We can still see you in there
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Turtle grass (that turtles don't eat)
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Humpbacks playing!
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Spy hop
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Splash!!!!
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I've got more shots like this
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and more...
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and more...
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It was like a washing machine at times!
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Spy hop
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Good bye Heron Island
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