{"id":2637,"date":"2011-03-21T16:12:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T04:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=660"},"modified":"2011-03-21T16:12:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T04:12:02","slug":"the-fact-files-queenslands-flinders-reef-possesses-diverse-marine-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/the-fact-files-queenslands-flinders-reef-possesses-diverse-marine-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fact Files: Queensland\u2019s Flinders Reef possesses diverse marine life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calling all scuba divers! For students on the <a href=\"http:\/\/auip.com\/programs\/southqueensland.php\">South Queensland program<\/a> or just avid divers, be sure to consider diving at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flinders_Reef\">Flinders Reef<\/a> outside of Brisbane near Moreton Island for impressive coral, fish and turtle diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Flinders Reef is an isolated reef north of Cape Moreton, which makes is the closest true coral reef to Queensland\u2019s capital city. With the highest number of coral species of any sub-tropical reef system along Australia\u2019s east coast, Flinders Reef has the coral diversity to match its fish diversity of over 175 fish species.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_661\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/pict0068_1_1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-661\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-661\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/pict0068_1_1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawksbill sea turtle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Divers may also see manta rays, wobbegongs, leopard sharks and sea turtle species of green Pacific and hawksbill. Pictured left, a juvenile hawksbill sea turtle emerges from beneath an outcropping on Flinders Reef\u2019s west side. Photo provided by Darren Smith.<\/p>\n<p>For details on day trips to Flinders Reef, we\u2019ve heard positive remarks about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nautilusscuba.com.au\/trips.html\">Nautilus Scuba Centre<\/a>, which includes transfer from Brisbane to Scarborough, where the boat departs, in a dive package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling all scuba divers! For students on the South Queensland program or just avid divers, be sure to consider diving at Flinders Reef outside of Brisbane near Moreton Island for impressive coral, fish and turtle diversity. Flinders Reef is an isolated reef north of Cape Moreton, which makes is the closest true coral reef to Queensland\u2019s capital city. With the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-south-queensland","category-the-fact-files"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}