Herald Cays

Today I did not see baby turtle tracks. They were strawberry hermit crab (the tracks with a line in the middle) and ghost hermit crab (the ones without a line) tracks. There are many bird footprints as well.

But I did see a lot of fresh turtle tracks of turtles laying their eggs.

And brown boobies

And masked boobies

And frigate birds

And some other bird

And a heap of fish.

Unlike the Great Barrier Reef, the Coral Sea Marine Park had a lot of bleaching in 2022 (the Great Barrier Reef was saved by a storm lowering the temperature just before the coral would have died, but the coral sea wasn’t), and it gets smashed by lots of cyclones. I went snorkelling twice today, and there wasn’t much living coral either time. The coral in the previous photo were in the best parch. 

There were amazing chasms.

I took some photos at sunset.