Flynn Reef
Coral reef flat and dive site, often a diver's first encounter with a living coral system.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Flynn Reef, the stretch of the Great Barrier Reef where most first-time visitors to Cairns meet a living coral reef, follows what happened to it after the mass bleaching events of twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen, and the cyclone that followed. It moves between the shallow Coral Gardens site and the anemone-crowded waters of Anemone City, on a reef with no famous shipwreck or explorer's name attached to it. It's a story about what a reef looks like while it is still deciding whether it will come back.
This audio guide was created using AI.
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