Lady Elliot island is a coral cay. Located at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef it attracts provide hunting and breeding grounds for birds, and its surrounding waters showcase some of the best marine life that the Reef has to offer.
Capricornian Silvereye find shelter and food in bushes like the octopus bush.
Buff-banded rail hunt insects in the grasses.
Eastern regret in the lagoon at sunrise.
Eastern reef egret hunting.
Ruddy turnstone can be seen on the exposed rocky reef as the tide recedes.
Black (or white-capped) noddy.
Red-tailed tropic bird preparing to "land" near the resort.
Red-tailed tropicbird after touchdown.
White-bellied sea eagles hunt over the island in the morning and evening.
Lesser frigatebird are frequent visitors to the skies above the island, but these intrepid voyagers never make landfall on the island.
