Reef Haych Q

On the thirteenth the Olsens took me to the Reef HQ in Townsville. It has a super huge coral reef as its main exhibit with fishes and sharks and a great big green sea turtle!

Davey, Rain and Sky.

Lion Fish. . . Somehow it is the only picture I got of a fish.

 We got to see some leopard sharks and their infants. Fun fact that I learned, Saw fish are actually in the Ray family and we saw one one of them too. 

 For those of you a bit confused she is cuddling with one of there big sharks. . . . . poor thing was taking a nap before she mauled it.

Trying to get a good picture with a shark was pretty amusing because, as a general rule they have to keep moving around or they suffocate.

I got to touch a star fish and watch them feed the little baby leopard sharks! 

 They even let us go into there turtle hospital where they revive injured or sick sea turtles and release them back into the wild! 

 This poor thing got hit by a boat propeller. All the white you see there is bone. I was also unaware that there was much bone at all in turtle shells, let alone this much. It does make sense however.

 This fella has floating syndrome. It just so happens that most of the turtles there had that in addition to whatever else they had. Floating Syn. happens when the turtle eats something, a plastic bag for example, that blocks up their digestive track. Or if they get a punctured or infected lung from being hit by a boat or ingesting pollution. Not good. For real people would you put your trash in the Bin! They are everywhere. I'm not even asking you to recycle just to put your Garbage in a Garbage Can. On second thought, so long as there is anyone doing things I say, you should just recycle.

 In other news bio-luminescent Fish are the height of cool fish in the sea. And if anyone is wondering I live on edge every time I swim in the ocean here, what with box jellies and Irukandji haunting in every shadow. It is amazing we aren't all dead. 

 If anyone is looking for a deep sea Hippie I know a couple

 Little fresh water turtles

 CLOWN FISH TANK!  The big one in the middle is actually just me.

Trouble Fish

If I learned anything on this trip it is that when I die and am creating awesome things like God, I am going to Build a Library with every other wall as an Aquarium, oh and night light that are purely Bioluminescent fish tanks! And it will definitely have an Aquarium Tunnel because those are the best thing ever!!!