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Tongue Reef
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Dive Site:
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Turtle Bay
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Location:
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16°18.117S 145°44.468E. North end of Third Sister Reef in Tongue Reef complex
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Visited By:
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Ocean Quest, Reef Quest
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Depth:
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1-15 meters
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Rating:
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Novice
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Features:
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- Come face-to-face with a giant 35kg Maori wrasse named "killer" who expects the Divemaster to feed him
- See the resident turtles, one named "Dopey" may swim right into your viewfinder
- See a giant clam and several species of sea cucumbers on the sandy floor
- Staghorn thickets and patches hide many smaller reef fish
- See soft and hard coral covering the reef edge and bommies
- Check under plate coral for hovering trout, sweetlip and the occasional barramundi cod
- On your easy swim back to the boat look hard for the small, cryptic life
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Note: Latitude and longitude not to be used for navigational purposes - approx co-ords only.
