Underwater Photo Location: Heron Island

by Bill Van Eyk
Flatworm, Heron Island

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by Bill Van Eyk
Photo taken while free diving. All of the sudden a school of stingrays appeared and swam around for maybe ten minutes or so.

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by Bill Van Eyk
Stingray stampede at Heron Island.

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by Bill Van Eyk
Sharks quietly circling unperturbed rabbit fish, early in the morning

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by Bill Van Eyk
Close up of a crown of thorns starfish

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by Bill Van Eyk
Flatworm at Heron Island

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by Bill Van Eyk
Relatively "tame" moray eel -

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by Bill Van Eyk
Yellow box fish - posing "sitting" relatively still .

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by Bill Van Eyk
Flying Gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans), we have a much smaller species down south in Melbourne. This one was about 30 cm wide (1 ft) and 20 cm long body (8 in).

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by Bill Van Eyk
Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) one of species turtles around Heron Island.

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by Bill Van Eyk
Manta ray late in the afternoon fishing near the surface

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by Mick Harris
My flying turtle taken at Heron Island.

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by Sean Steininger
The Gang's All Here

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by Sean Steininger
Shovelnose Ray

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by Nick Polanszky
Turtle Kingdom

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by Nick Polanszky
The Look-Outs

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by Nick Polanszky
Split of diver taken at the HMAS Protector, Heron Island

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