<p>Paul Rush discovers what lies and lurks beneath Australia's Great Barrier Reef</p><p>My timely arrival on Lady Elliot Island, off the Fraser Coast north of Brisbane, is one of those cherished moments that tear through the fabric of the everyday and resonate in the memory.</p><p>To land on this remote coral cay at the precise time of a lunar eclipse is notably auspicious in itself. To learn that the annual humpback whale migration has just begun and that the Project Manta Ray research team is working on the island is doubly so.</p><p>This southernmost island of the Great Barrier Reef is a place where you quickly become absorbed in the incredible array of wildlife in the ocean. It's a mecca for divers and photographers, slap bang in the middle of a World Heritage Area Green Zone.</p><p><a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10877688">Keep reading...</a></p>