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to know more about solo diving our friend Carlos Lander has written a book in the series: “Beyond the Diving Course”, entitled: “Mastering Solo Diving: Your Essential Guide” (available via Amazon). Because the options are virtually limitless, we will now talk more generically across the range of breath-taking day dive sites we have off Cairns and let our photos from this past season do most of the talking. Needless to say, our backyard has just about every species of Butterfly, Angelfish, Surgeonfish, Damsels, Emperors, Sweetlips, Triggerfish, Boxfish, Groupers, Trout, Parrotfish, Lionfish, Blennies, Gobies, Wrasse and Garden Eels out on the sand. These are always present, but less often we get really excited to find frogfish, seahorse and pipefish. My (Terry) favourites are the nudibranchs, various species of Anemonefish, the Giant Puffer and schools of Longfin Spadefish.

For me, (Cathie) I have always thought how blessed we are living here in Cairns. The amazing GBR at our backdoor. The day boats are always available to take us out to explore the amazing display of colour, coral and fishes. I was slow to get into photography, and once was the ’spotter’, finding everything! But my Nikon Z50 in a

Photo credit Mike Scotland

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