Day 126 - Lady Musgrave Island

Day 126 - Tuesday - 22/9/2026

This morning we woke up at 5:45 because Grandma and Grandpa had to move their caravan and we all had to get ready to go to Lady Musgrave Island. We boarded the boat for our tour with 1770 Reefs and then cruised over the calm but still bumpy ocean for 1 hour and 30 minutes until we hit the lagoon where the water was still. We split up into three groups, and our group went on a glass bottom boat to the island first. Once we got on the boat, we drove around looking at fish and coral until we reached the island which we walked around. We started off the walk through the Pisonia forest where we saw hundreds of Black Noddys in their nests, and some Buff Banded Rails. 

Walking through the Pisonia Forest

Black Noddy

Buff-banded Rail

Soon we cleared through the trees onto the beach where we walked along the shore until we got back to the glass bottom boat and headed back to the main big boat. 

The beach

Lady Musgrave was a small island similar size to the one we went to in the Frankland islands, but you couldn't see the mainland only the vast open ocean. 

Lady Musgrave Island


After we had some wraps for lunch we headed out for a snorkel where we saw heaps of different fish especially butterflyfish, we also saw a turtle. 

Me diving down in the water


Fish and Coral

Dusky Butterflyfish

Longfin Rock Cod

Redfin Butterflyfish

Whilst we were snorkelling, I noticed a few different things about the southern Great Barrier Reef, the main difference being that there were no soft corals anymore, only hard ones. After snorkelling for over an hour we got back on the boat and headed for the mainland.

Morish Idol

Pacific Double-saddle Butterflyfish

Sixband Angelfish

Harlequin Tuskfish

Pacific Trumpetfish

Lined Bristletooth

Blackback Butterflyfish

Hawksbill Sea Turtle

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