5 Ugly But Awesome Great Barrier Reef Creatures With The Good Ship

Blobfish
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This Sunday, The Good Ship will reunite for a one-off show as they support Greens candidate Kirsten Lovejoy's bid to win the federal seat of Brisbane at Unbleach The Reef.


Other bands joining forces on the night are: Jay & Lindsay (Frenzal Rhomb), Georgia Maq, Gentle Ben & His Sensitive Side, Evil Eddie and Paddy McHugh. “The Great Barrier Reef is not all about Nemo and Dory and other glorified, Pixar-fied creatures. All you wanna talk about is dolphins and turtles and whales - like the captain of the football team and the head cheerleader,” The Good Ship declare.

“There’s some that never get any attention and we think it’s about time we shed a bit of light on these guys. After all, life is all about ying and yang and it’s this biodiversity that makes the Great Barrier Reef one of the world’s most complex natural eco-systems.”

5. Stone Fish

Now the stone fish is a great example of ugly on the inside and the outside. Mr SF has bad intentions and really we think that’s why he looks like he does. He can kill a person just by sitting in the shallow waters with his spikes up. These SF just hang out dwelling in stony, muddy, smelly water areas and show off their 13 poisonous dorsal spines.

Stone Fish
Creepy and ugly. The stone fish is one of those Australian animals that foreign tourists dread. The kind of guy that lurks in the shadows ready to kill you at any given moment. In fact, it’s Wolf Creek, GBR style!

4. Hammerhead shark

We're sorry but this shark is U.G.L.Y. It looks like it got its head stuck in a lift door as it was closing after a big night on Oxford Street and the ‘woe is me, I look like a prehistoric tool’ kind of look on it’s face is so ho-hum. However, to its credit it’s not aggressive, potentially because of too many benders and the aforementioned lift accident. Hammerheads, like the rest of this top 5, play a pretty significant part in making the Reef AWESOME. So we say Gooooooo Hammerheads!



3. Deep-Sea Amphipod Crustacean

Ok if this list was top 5 creepiest creatures of the GBR, this guy would be number 1. This is the type of creature that once seen cannot be unseen. It haunts your sleep with its dead, cold voids where the eyes should be, and the black Hannibal Lector mask it wears. And if that’s not enough, it seems to have added a touch of orange eye shadow for extra dramatic effect. Nice touch Deep-Sea Amphipod Crustacean, that’s why you made the list.

Amphipod

2. The Australian Blobfish

Poor Mr Blobby was voted 'World’s Ugliest Animal' - not kidding. And to be fair, we’d all be looking a bit worse for wear if we hung around in frigid water, with no sunlight and water pressure over 100 times greater than land. Although there was the aftermath of this one Good Ship gig in Sydney.



1. Sea Cucumber

BINGO! Numero uno, coolest, most-badass creature of the GBR. This is how the Canisius Ambassadors for Conservation describe sea cucumbers: '…Sea cucumbers have small suction-cup feet to help them move. They breathe out of their anus and can shoot out their internal organs when they detect a predator. Then they regrow their insides."

Sea Cucumber
Hot diggity dog! And if that wasn’t cool enough for you, they rent out their bottoms to a small fish called the pearlfish. The pearlfish like to reverse in so their heads are always sticking out. Go pearlfish and massive high fives to the number one landlord and all-round nice guy of the GBR….the sea cucumber. Yeah!

The Good Ship perform at Unbleach The Reef at The Triffid (Brisbane) 5 June.

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