Travel through the central Philippines rarely follows a straight route. Ferries connect islands in slow arcs across the sea, linking coastal towns with small fishing communities and coral reef destinations. Each island feels slightly different, even when separated by only…
Pixie Pinnacle on Ribbon Reef No. 10 is a coral tower so densely encrusted with soft corals and sea fans that it barely looks real. It's one of the most photographed dive sites on the Great Barrier Reef.
My daughter saw her first sea turtle when she was four years old. We were snorkelling in the lagoon at Lady Elliot Island — she was in a child’s wetsuit and a mask that had taken three attempts to fit…
From international flights to the ferry to Magnetic Island — a complete transport guide for reaching every part of the Great Barrier Reef.
Reef manta rays follow predictable routes along the Great Barrier Reef, visiting cleaning stations with the regularity of commuters. Scientists have been tracking them for years - and what they've found is remarkable.
Below 30 metres, beyond the reach of most recreational divers, lies a twilight reef world that scientists are only beginning to understand - and that may hold the key to the GBR's future.
The Coral Sea Marine Park extends 1,100 kilometres east of the Great Barrier Reef, encompassing a series of remote atolls and submerged reefs that represent some of the most pristine coral ecosystems on Earth.
Once a year, on nights following the November full moon, the Great Barrier Reef releases billions of gamete bundles in a synchronised mass spawning event that looks like a blizzard falling upward.
I have dived with sea turtles in a dozen countries. I have watched them feed on coral and seagrass, sleep wedged under ledges, glide through schools of fish that parted for them the way crowds part for someone large and…
Port Douglas is seventy kilometres north of Cairns and a different world entirely — smaller boats, better restaurants, and the best access to the northern ribbon reefs in Australia.