Heron Island Holiday

clam and sea cucumber

Here you can see just a few of the marine invertebrates we met in the touch tank at Heron Island Research Station, 65km east of Gladstone, on the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. We learnt about molluscs (such as the blue-lipped clam, sea hare and cone shells), echinoderms (sea stars and sea cucumbers), corals and cnidarians (jellyfish). A coral cay is a great example of succession – how a landscape changes over time as new plants and animals colonize an area.

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