Australian Traveller

TREASURE CHEST

IT’S THE MOST peaceful nursery I’ve ever seen. Never mind that the babies constantly feed, incessantly tussle and never properly go to sleep. But, then again, it’s hard to sleep when you don’t have a brain.

In three raised ‘cribs’ in the Cairns Aquarium, 392 small pieces of coral resembling tiny trees, sticks of scored calamari and clumps of marshmallow-pink hair sit side by side, growing bigger every day, thanks to their uncanny ability to

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