Welcome to Reef Teach!

Cairn’s unique education centre for The Great Barrier Reef.

The Reef Teach presentation is a very entertaining evening, full of amazing facts, beautiful images, and the opportunity to handle a wide range of corals and other marine specimens – including some of the dangerous creatures you wouldn’t want to touch if they were alive! It will amaze, inspire, and captivate you, and have you laughing about the funny facts and weird and wonderful ways in which the reef works!

With learning comes appreciation

At Reef Teach we offer:

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Reef Teach Times- Happy Holidays!!!

To read the entire newsletter click on this link: Reef Teach Times 14– Dec 2011  Happy Holidays

Reef Teach Times-Coral Spawning on the GBR

To read the entire newsletter click on this link: Reef Teach Times 13 – Sept 2011 Coral Spawning

 

Reef Teach Times: …Whales? They’er Back

WHATS NEW: We have given our show a face lift. New photos and for the first time video has been added. Now, together with the real life specimens of coral and fish the show really brings the Reef to life. Also check out our new look website with loads of information: www.reefteach.com.au. You can also follow us on Twitter: @reefteach.


The start of winter is a very exciting time on the Great Barrier Reef with the arrival of the whales. The Reef is home to nearly 30 species of marine mammals. The whales of particular interest at this time of year are the Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) and the Dwarf Minke Whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata subsp.).

Photograph by Matt Curnock from the Dwarke Minke Whale Project

Photograph by Gareth Phillips from Reef Teach

To read the entire newsletter click here now

 

Marine Shop

Reef Teach is happy to sell one of the largest collections of marine education products and marine souvenirs in North Queensland.  Check out our: books, tshirts, posters, DVDs and field guides (including underwater ID slates) and a range of marine-themed gifts.  Check it out now and help support our reef education programs in the process.

Classroom Hire

Our classroom is fitted with comfortable seating, audio visual equipment and refreshments.  When not in use for one of our reef education sessions it is available for hire.

Cost | $130 full-day hire (9am-5pm), $90 half-day hire (9am-1pm or 1pm-5pm)

Please read on for more information

What a Load of Garbage!

If you’ve been to the Reef Teach show, you’ll know a bit about the impact of plastic and other garbage on marine life. Plastic doesn’t biodegrade, but it does photodegrade, breaking down into smaller and smaller, but just as toxic particles, which are consumed by marine life mistaking it for food. The United Nations Environment Programme estimates it is killing more than a million seabirds, and over 100,000 other marine animals (including sharks, dolphins, whales and sea turtles) every year, and that there are on average 46,000 pieces of plastic in every square kilometre of the world’s oceans! Read the rest of this entry »

The Great Escape

Ladies and Gentlemen,

May we present one of the most intelligent animals on the planet… the OCTOPUS! These amazing molluscs are remarkable escape artists: capable of changing their colour and texture and squeezing into the smallest gaps to camofluage themselves; squirting ink into the face of potential predators to mask themselves and their scent while they make their escape. They are capable of recognising colours and shapes, working out problems, finding their way through mazes, and even remembering a sequence of events… and now scientists have recorded octopii using coconut shells as tools! They are truly extraordinary animals! Read the story and watch the video by clicking on the photo.

Presentations from 6.30pm each evening…

Just $18 for adults, $9 for children and $45 for families (2ad, 2ch)

A unique experience to help you get the most out of your visit to the Great Barrier Reef.   Learn what to look for, where to find it and how to discover as mach as possible!  Reef Teach is staffed by qualified marine biologists and conservationists, who aim to educate, inspire and enthuse visitors to the Great Barrier Reef about this unique and incredible place.

Reef Teach presentations are held each evening from 6.30pm – 8.30pm (except Sunday and Monday).  Admission is just $18 for adults, $9 for children 14 & under and $45 families (2ad, 2ch).

Free: Fish and coral identification sheets, tea, coffee, Milo and the best chocolate biscuits in town!

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to enrich your Great Barrier Reef experience.

Book Now!!

Email learn@reefteach.com.au
Phone:
07 4031 7794


 

The Acid Test

When you think about the impact of climate change on the reef, you probably think about coral bleaching. Few people have heard about ocean acidification, but for many marine scientists this is an even more worrying issue… just harder to explain because you can’t see the impacts as easily as you can see bleached coral.

However, Acid Test, a new documentary starring Sigourney Weaver, produced by the National Resources Defence Council (NRDC) explains ocean acidification in terms we can all understand.

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Coitus Interruptus?!

Coral Spawning Update

We anticipated a split spawning this year (because the full moon was so early in November), and we’ve got one. Initially, conditions looked good for the coral to spawn in November, but a change in the weather brought rougher and cooler conditions than expected, and although a few corals went ahead and spawned anyway, most held back. This means you have another chance to catch them in flagrante! If you’re feeling voyeuristic, and want to get in on the act, contact Deep Sea Divers Den (Tel: 07-4046-7333) or Tusa Dive (Tel: 07-4047-9100) who are running coral spawning trips on:

Sunday 6 / Monday 7 / Tuesday 8 December 

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