Flying in a seaplane over the reefs of the Whitsunday Island, in an ancient Beaver aircraft is the perfect platform for aerial views of the Great Barrier Reef.
The deep blue of the ocean gradually changes to the turquoise shapes and patterns of the reefs, that stretch a thousand kilometres north and almost as far south. Below us a deep blue channel cuts a sinuous path through one of the larger reefs. All around are shapes and patterns but one catches our eye - the perfect heart-shape, inside a larger reef.
The headphones crackle, “that’s Heart Reef just below us now,” comes the voice of John, our pilot. “We’ll go around and have another look then head away to our landing site.”
Heart Reef dwells in our memories, although once back at sea level the shape became just another of the reefs’ coral growths.
