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grandpaul
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One of my life goals is to SCUBA dive on the Great Barrier Reef...
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Do it while you still can.
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I have fished a lot of the GBR mostly on the southern end of the reef, a mate and brother in law both live at Agnes Water and 1770, where the GBR begins, from the boat ramp at 1770 it's a 1 1/2 hr fast boat ride heading NE to the reef crossing a major shipping channel 1/2 way out, some great bottom bashing fishing to be had, but lately the sharks have been hitting the fish hard and have to get your fish off the bottom and too the boat before they are hit by the sharks, sometimes you only get the head, here are some pics of one of my trips out.
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Only had been snorkeling there, great experience. More to see close to the surface. Without all the trouble of carrying all the heavy equipment to and from the boat.
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I don't like deep dives, just 20-30 feet is all you need in MOST places! The cool part is, you don't have to come up for air, and can linger with one subject for 5 minutes.
I don't carry the equipment, I swim to the boat nice and slow, chatting with Sally about everything we just saw.
...and what the heck she was TRYING to tell me when she was pointing at that green rock!
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Fishing on the Great Barrier Reef is cheating. The fish almost jump into your boat. I had to laugh, when my daughter was 8 years old, we were on Dunk Island and she pulled up half a fish. Then she was terrified about walking back along the jetty, because it dipped below the water by about an inch when the tide was in. If you are coming to North Queensland, come when it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere - Our winter.
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Al I have never had a fish jump into the boat fishing the GBR, most reef fish are bottom fish and its very hard work when they take your bait to keep them away from the reef and to wind them in as fast as you can before the sharks get them, do that all day and you will sleep well that night lol.
The thing also the GBR is the largest reef in the world, I have only fished it at the bottom end of the reef, Lady Eliot Island is the beginning of the reef just east of 1770 and travels all the way up to the top end of Queensland coast and top of Australia, well over 1k kms, but the further you go up north you get all the tourist ports of Townsville and all the day tripper cruises to the reef, it's a big money making business with charter boats galore.
Captain Cook who discovered the east coast of Australia had problems finding a way through the GBR and tore the bottom out of the Endeavor out from Cooktown, he had to beach the Endeavor for months and named the river after the Endeavour while they repaired the ship, also gave him time to climb the ranges and find a way to get out of the reef, even ships today has to have a reef pilot to navigate the whole inside of the reef and times they can get through the channels.
There are some of the biggest reef fish you can't eat because they are toxic from the reef food they eat, we also have some very deadly reef fish and things that want to eat you to be careful of, sharks (bull sharks are the worst ones), stonefish, even crocs have been sighted offshore, just to name a few but the colour of the reef as well the fish is such a draw card to our lovely part of the world and being in the tropics all draws the crowds and overseas visitors and the best thing, us Queenslanders are a friendly bunch.
I should get a job with Queensland tourism lol, but if you get the chance to come over our way, the reef be the high light of your stay and the beer is always cold.
Ashley
The thing also the GBR is the largest reef in the world, I have only fished it at the bottom end of the reef, Lady Eliot Island is the beginning of the reef just east of 1770 and travels all the way up to the top end of Queensland coast and top of Australia, well over 1k kms, but the further you go up north you get all the tourist ports of Townsville and all the day tripper cruises to the reef, it's a big money making business with charter boats galore.
Captain Cook who discovered the east coast of Australia had problems finding a way through the GBR and tore the bottom out of the Endeavor out from Cooktown, he had to beach the Endeavor for months and named the river after the Endeavour while they repaired the ship, also gave him time to climb the ranges and find a way to get out of the reef, even ships today has to have a reef pilot to navigate the whole inside of the reef and times they can get through the channels.
There are some of the biggest reef fish you can't eat because they are toxic from the reef food they eat, we also have some very deadly reef fish and things that want to eat you to be careful of, sharks (bull sharks are the worst ones), stonefish, even crocs have been sighted offshore, just to name a few but the colour of the reef as well the fish is such a draw card to our lovely part of the world and being in the tropics all draws the crowds and overseas visitors and the best thing, us Queenslanders are a friendly bunch.
I should get a job with Queensland tourism lol, but if you get the chance to come over our way, the reef be the high light of your stay and the beer is always cold.
Ashley
