The Weekend Post

Shark attack won’t stop tourist dives

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FOR parents with growing kids, it can be tricky to make sure they’re getting their necessary serves of fruit and veggies each day.

Kobie Woodforde, mother of Jonah, 4, and Taj, 10, said the best way to get fruits and veggies into her boys was mixing them in with some tastier options.

“An easy way to do it is to set some ground rules. You can’t have your dessert unless you eat your vegetables,” she said.

While young Jonah has no issue tucking into sweet things like bananas and strawberri­es, he and his brother can be pickier when it comes to veggies.

“Carrots are a struggle for both of them, but they can eat their peas and potatoes without much trouble,” father Ryan Woodforde said.

“Often the best way is to grate it up into spaghetti bolognese so they don’t even notice it.”

“If we have tacos, we’ll chuck in a whole heap of cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce.” which there had been a slight change.”

The main oceanarium tank features the largest inhabitant­s on the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea, including reef sharks, leopard sharks, sting rays, coral trout and trevally.

Ms Cullen said the aquarium would still progress with plans to allow visitors to dive with sharks at the facility later this year.

“We wouldn’t be anticipati­ng that the shark dive would be happening here until probably Christmas, because that’s the length of time that we’d be looking for, for these animals to well and truly settle in, that they’re feeding well, they’re not predating on any other fish – because they’re being well fed, and all those other things,” she said.

 ??  ?? HUNGRY: A grey reef shark bit the hand of a staff member at Cairns Aquarium.
HUNGRY: A grey reef shark bit the hand of a staff member at Cairns Aquarium.

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