Fish of my childhood gone
Personal memory by Caroline D.
2010 CE • Lady Elliott Island, Great Barrier Reef
My son came home from second grade and said "I want to go to the Great Barrier Reef before it dies." Having grown up in Australia, I wanted the same. We had a beautiful time but all the fish in the rock pools from my childhood delight were gone.
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022
Image: jadhav vikram, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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