It was a snowstorm on the Great Barrier Reef overnight. The annual coral spawning on the Great Barrier Reef has begun. This amazing natural phenomenon gifts new life to our Reef releasing enough eggs and sperm into the water to produce trillions of baby corals. The Cairns-Port Douglas Reef Hub were out at Moore Reef off Cairns late last night with Calypso Productions to capture billions of tiny pink balls exploding into the water as the soft corals and a handful of hard corals began the regenera

Corals are alive 🪸 They might look like colourful rocks, but they’re actually the living architects of our ocean. They grow, reproduce and build the habitat that sustains a quarter of all marine life. They are also incredibly vulnerable. Comment 💙 if you know why. #protectourocean #ourblueplanet #restorationgeneration | Great Barrier Reef Foundation