Moreton Bay, Queensland Earthwatch holiday: The ultimate guilt-free holiday

By Louise Southerden
Updated July 27 2015 - 2:23pm, first published 11:06am
A dugong in Moreton Bay.
 Photo: Picasa
A dugong in Moreton Bay. Photo: Picasa
Cottages at Tangalooma Island Resort.
Cottages at Tangalooma Island Resort.

The glittering waters of Moreton Bay off Brisbane have a secret. Beneath the hulls of the Moreton Island ferry, the yachts and other pleasure craft that speed across its surface, there is an abundance of life: corals and fields of seagrass, two kinds of dolphin (bottlenose and the rare Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin), six of the world's seven species of sea turtle (including 10,000 green turtles), migrating whales (July-October), more than 750 species of fish – and up to 1100 dugongs.

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