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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New Day time Show

If you are planning a Great Barrier Reef trip make sure you get the most out of your experience. Attend our new day time show and learn all about the Reef. You  will be able to name many fish and coral species plus find all the hidden treasures that most people miss.

Enhance your Reef experiences…due to popular demand book for our  NEW DAY TIME SHOW!

DATES STILL AVAILABLE:

Mon 5th March 2012 @ 15:00 – Seats available please book.
Mon 02nd April 2012 @ 15:00 – Seats available please book.
Mon 07th May 2012 @ 15:00 – Seats available please book
Mon 11th June 2012 @ 15:00 – Seats available please book.
Mon 09th July 2012 @ 15:00 – Seats available please book.

Booking Conditions:
-        Must be booked via phone or e-mail.
-        Contact details must be provided.
-        Cost:  Same as evening show – $18.00 per adult $9.00 per child and $45.00 per family.
-        Show subject to a min of 5 people.

Please call (07) 4031 7794 or 0435 173 615 or e-mail: learn@reefteach.com.au and see our website:  www.reefteach.com.au

“With learning comes appreciation”


Sixbanded Angelfish

Reef Teach’s 20th Anniversary Get 20% Discount

Reef Teach is proud to anounce that we are celebrating 20 years in marine education. In the past 20 years Reef Teach has grown form strength to strength. We started out in the old Cairns Library and now we have a dedicated marine eduction centre in the heart of Cairns. Come celebrate with us, click here to download your 20% discount voucher Reef Teach 20th anniversary entrance.

This is a website special only, must have voucher in hand to receive discount

Another Splendid Day on the Great Barrier Reef

The past two days have been mind blowing out on the Great Barrier Reef. Don’t get me wrong it is always good, however the last two days have been some of those special days.

The weather conditions were beautiful and calm, with not a drop of rain in sight. The visibility was up around the 20m mark.

Over the past two days Reef Teach has visited Flynn, Theftford and MiIln Reef. The sightings have been so varied, from the smallest cleaner shrimps to the beautiful eagle ray “flying” overhead. Some of the highlights were watching an arrogation of sharks seemingly in a mating frenzy, a large group of tuna feeding, which looked like a high energy airplane acrobatic display and lastly the beautiful eagle ray that majestically flew over our heads.

Although these where the highlights one cannot forget the regulars, the very large and friendly Maori wrasse “Wally”, who was loving having his photo taken with all the divers and snorkelers. There was clownfish, blue spot lagoon rays and the very colourful and noisy parrotfish.

Although these past few days were above average, the Great Barrier Reef is a beautiful place to visit at any time if the year. If you are planning a visit to the Reef remember come and visit us at Reef Teach so that you can get the most out of your Trip. The experience is always enhanced if you know what to look for, where to find it and what it is. Do not take my word for it, read our comments on Trip Advisor.

I hope to see you all out on the reef one day and remember “With Learning Comes Appreciation”.

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

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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.

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