Nine Mile Reef

The top of the reef sits at about 10 meters deep, dropping to 30 meters with the drop-off covered in numerous hard and soft corals. Reef fish are scattered across the shallower parts, with pelagic fish, sharks, turtles, stingrays, eagle rays, and the occasional manta ray circling the reef.

Marine life at this site

All year long, a good population of wobbegongs call the reef home but are joined by leopard sharks in summer and grey nurse sharks in winter.

Based on open species observationswithin ~5 km — likely to see, not necessarily confirmed at the site itself.

Humpback Whale

Megaptera novaeangliae4 obs.

Krebsdyr

Amphipoda1 obs.

Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Janthina janthina1 obs.

Varicose Wart Slug

Phyllidia varicosa1 obs.

Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Cabestana spengleri1 obs.

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Green Sea Turtle

Chelonia mydas7 obs.

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Børsteorm

Lepidonotus carinulatus4 obs.

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Hawksbill Sea Turtle

Eretmochelys imbricata2 obs.

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Loggerhead Sea Turtle

Caretta caretta2 obs.

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Børsteorm

Platynereis australis1 obs.

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White Cleidothaerus

Cleidothaerus albidus1 obs.

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Søpung

Polyandrocarpa colemani1 obs.

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Børsteorm

Nicolea amnis1 obs.

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Børsteorm

Sphaerosyllis hirsuta1 obs.

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Cunjevoi

Pyura stolonifera1 obs.

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Musling

Donax brazieri1 obs.

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Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Tudivasum rasilistoma1 obs.

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Krebsdyr

Cristimenes commensalis1 obs.

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Musling

Limatula iredalei1 obs.

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Pycnogonid

Nymphon singulare1 obs.

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Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Cronia aurantiaca1 obs.

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Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Tugali1 obs.

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Børsteorm

Nereis bifida1 obs.

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Børsteorm

Idanthyrsus australiensis1 obs.