The few pictures here are of two spots our Brisbane marine and freshwater aquarium society go to regularly to either collect our marine species or just do some free diving or some of us have a look around on scuba when the water reaches 21 degrees and starts going up.

The first spot is of the mini barrier reef rock pool where we just look and this time we took tea, coffee and breakfast on to the reef, as this day was perfect to fully appreciate a snorkellers and reef keeper’s visual paradise.

On this day you could casually walk in, which is very, very rare to get it this good, in nearly 30 years of visiting this spot. I have seen it this clear and calm 3 times, this was one of those three.

One of our more recent members was totally in aw of the amount of life he saw that you would never get a chace to interact with unless you have visited the barrier reef it self and not in a very safe rock pool only 45 mins from Bris.

The club has been doing these sought of trips since the early 1950s that I am aware of, possibly longer from what a life member has said,(I am not that old yet)and a large part of the society has always been about reef aquarium keeping  since 1926 and learning from interacting in the wild with them, plus collecting their own aquarium species as well.

In this break from the weekend before xmas in 2008 into January, the aandtsociety had it’s best conditions of smooth clear no current warm water, so much so, most of us snorkellers didn’t bother getting much at a couple of spots, we just had a ball looking around, because it all looked far to good to touch or take, but we did get a latezonatus and one or two other things at the second site, the latezonatus was given to Shane to go with his ocelaris in his reef tank, the rest from there and the other sites were that we get were distributed around friends and members.

A latezonatus  is one of the truly peaceful intelligent amphiprions in a reef tank, in mine he(as he didn’t have a double chin as the female does)would sought out arguments between other amphiprion and centropyge as well.

The guys that went on scuba, (they are the greenies, ha, ha, we keep away from them) they helped a small turtle from some fishing line, patted a leopard shark or two, were watched closely by a nice little black tip, swam with two manta rays and a few huge eagle rays that the snorkellers saw as well and said the water was to warm????They should have brought thinner wetsuits like us.

I will put more in soon.

Oh by the way, I have the cuttle fish doing tricks for its crabs now.

This is the link to all rock pool photos if any one is interested.

http://s272.photobucket.com/albums/jj198/aandtsociety/?action=tags&current=pool

enjoy!!!