The Great Barrier Reef. It’s been on my bucket list for years. If I’m honest, my visit was tinged with slight disappointment. I was expecting bright colours, turtles, small sharks, starfish and maybe even the odd jellyfish to be afraid of.

Despite the utterly excellent tour with Passions of Paradise (not bad at $180Aus either), we didn’t really get any of that. No shortage of weird fish mind!

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The marine biologist on board did give us a great little info on this little fellow though.

sea-cucumber

He’s a sea cucumber. Let me spell them out.

  1. His face is permanently face down in the sand. He feeds off fish poop all day long.
  2. He looks like a poo
  3. Because his face is in the sand, he breathes out of a hole at the rear.
  4. Up to 15 fish can live in this hole.
  5. He is able to rip out his liver and fire it when danger.

So to sum up:

  • He eats poo.
  • He looks like poo.
  • He breathes out of his bum.
  • Other fish live in his bum.
  • The only way he can defend himself is to fire his own organs at pace.

Bad times.