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Photos: Great Barrier Reef 2009 • Pacific to Indian • Thailand 2007 • Thailand 2004 • Red Sea 2003 • Red Sea 1997 • Copyright
 

Here are some of the underwater photos shot by Jacques de Selliers in Australia in November 2009
during two cruises in Great Barrier Reef, around Lizard Island then Cairns. More...

 
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Comments by Jacques de Selliers

Because of a temporary slowdown in my professional activities, I was able to go and visit Australia during the month of November 2009. This was my first trip to this fabulous country - and I shot a lot of photos, some of which are displayed at deselliers.info.

It was also a unique occasion to scubadive in the Great Barrier Reef. So I first took the 3 days "COD HOLE & RIBBON REEFS" cruise onboard of the Spirit of Freedom, a very nice liveaboard cruising from Cairns.

On the last day of the cruise, I spotted a 5 metres manta ray approaching a pinnacle reef. I swam to the top of it and saw the ray just over my head, at touching distance. This reef was probably a cleaning station for manta rays, since the ray circled for more than 10 minutes over my head, allowing me to shoot over 80 photos - out of which I selected seven for this website.

I wanted to extend my stay on the Spirit of Freedom to dive the Coral Sea, but unfortunately this cruise was fully booked. So I came back to Cairns for one day to explore the wildlife in the Atherton Tablelands rainforest. Then I spent five days onboard of the Reef Encounter, a nice floating hotel bringing divers to some of the best diving sites around Cairns.

My cruises and stay in Cairns were organised by Joel of DiveTheReef.com, and I can only recommend him!

Photos by Jacques de Selliers: Great Barrier Reef 2009 • Thailand 2007 • Thailand 2004 • Red Sea 2003 • Copyright info