The Great Barrier Reef is Australia's greatest natural treasure, and the world’s largest coral reef.
The Great Barrier Reef encompasses almost 3,000 individual reefs. Their multicoloured beauty is made up of 400 types of living and dead coral polyps, home to around 1,500 species of fish, 4,000 breeds of clams, 500 types of seaweed, 200 species of birds, 1,500 different sponges and half a dozen varieties of turtles.
The Great Barrier Reef is also dotted with around 900 islands, including coral cays such as Green Island and Heron Island, along with the Whitsundays sand islands.
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Quite simply it's the most astounding and largest area of marine wildlife on the planet. The water is warm, the reef shallow enough to snorkel and the biodiversity is amazing.
Why not answer your own question? Take a boat from one of the nearby Islands, for examples Hamilton Island in the Whitsundays, or a boat from the mainland, Cairns is a popular place to depart from, otherwise Port Douglas, Airlie Beach or Townsville. If you can afford it you could charter a helicopter of seaplane.
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