Amazing to say the least, took us all by surprise. Go figure, dead coral can’t reproduce. But weglorious life, and its cycle.
Great Barrier Reef is dead.
Europe, the Americas, this ‘fake news’ has spread globally, and oh no, so far from the truth, but it is actually hurting our industry, and therefore our livelihoods. The Great Barrier Reef is alive and on the contrary, refreshing as I type.
Just recently we had the coral actually spawning at an early stage on the Ribbon Reefs north of Cairns and during the day?!
Amazing to say the least, took us all by surprise. Go figure, dead coral can’t reproduce. But we witnessed glorious life, and its cycle.
The Great Barrier Reef supports 64,000 jobs and contributes $6.5 billion to the Australian economy each year.
In Cairns, whether you like it or not, tourism generated by the Great Barrier Reef keeps the city alive as the biggest industry here.
Now, the whole area and surrounds are suffering because of the nonsensical noise emanating from those ‘not in the know’.
From mum and day businesses who bake the breads or grow the fruit & vegetables that our valuable tourists consume on their adventures, to the corporations, all are fighting to survive. Have you considered this?
Since the late 1980s when the pilots’ strike hit our tourism town, I was taking ample money from backpackers who would arrive in droves off Greyhound buses up the east coast of Australia.
The hotels suffered and the tourism activities were grateful that the Backpackers still came on buses, as they didn’t travel here on ‘planes.
There are reports now from hotels, tourism operators and indeed banking corporations whom manage the accounts of the industry, stating that now is worse that the pilots’ strike.
We are in fact in a tourism recession here in Cairns.
It’s bad, real bad, because of the green groups and fund grabbers getting worldwide attention on their noise that the Great Barrier Reef is dead.
Just like in real life, humans and coral ‘suffer’ in similar ways.
We get sick, we get fixed, we rejuvenate — healthy again. Sometimes, when we get chronic sickness or old age, we die. Same for corals on the Great Barrier Reef.
The corals that have succumbed to extreme temperatures in the two summers up here of no rain, no cyclone activity, and very little wind to break up the ‘magnifying glass’ of the water surface, they have indeed recovered, some astonishingly well.
