I snorkelled the Great Barrier Reef today. Yesterday I took an eco tour through the Daintree Rainforest, which included a river cruise crock spotting (we saw several including a She with 4 babies... seen for the first time by our guide...very lucky and rare sighting according to him)
The Rainforest is the oldest on the planet (over 100 million yrs) and still has plants that date back before the dinosaurs, living and thriving in the forest. Sadly the forest is a fraction of it's former size, and though strong measures are being taken to try to rebuild what can be, Not all the damage will Ever be repaired.
Today I swam the Reef. Beautiful and unique, the largest living thing on this planet and the only living thing that can be seen from space is becoming nothing more than a memory. Pictures of brilliant colours spark our imaginations, and though there are amazing things to see, the amount of dead coral is startling and the damage to these brown dying sea creatures is all too apparent. It's breath taking and heart breaking all at the same time.
The earth is our home and we have both actively and inactively sentenced her to death. A very slow painful death. She lay dying while we sleep
Lisa Freitag
Silent River Kung Fu, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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