Airlie Beach

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Airlie Beach

***** Location: Australia
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Earth

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Explanation

The town of Airlie Beach is the ideal location to stay in order to experience what the entire Whitsunday region has to offer. Being the focal point of activity on the mainland and the gateway to The Great Barrier Reef and Whitsunday Islands, Airlie Beach is the perfect place to enjoy a holiday in paradise.

With Airlie Beach being positioned on a picturesque peninsula that reaches out into the Whitsunday waters, the town is an ideal base for a huge array of holiday enjoyment on the mainland, islands and in the surrounding Whitsunday waters.
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Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for 2,600 kilometres (1,616 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (132,974 sq mi).The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia.

The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. The Great Barrier Reef supports a wide diversity of life, and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981.CNN has labelled it one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The Queensland National Trust has named it a state icon of Queensland.

A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as overfishing and tourism. Other environmental pressures to the reef and its ecosystem include water quality from runoff, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, and cyclic outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish.
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color moving-
cheerful fish swimming
and a turtle

at the seaside
a baby albatross
stretches its wings

Great Barrier Reef
so moving
for life

agitation at shore-
a baby seagull
in the mouth of a shark

Alex Serban
Kigo Hotline, December 2012


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HAIKU

Airlie Beach
four evenings of prawns
in garlic sauce

©　Ella Wagemakers
Kigo Hotline, April 2008

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Heave ho, there she goes
a sea turtle on the beach.
Don’t disturb her nest.

©　cephalopodcast.com


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