A state-first trial was trying to save WA’s prized reefs, until a cyclone threatened months of hard work The Age - Latest News By: Holly Thompson 11 June 2026 at 20:00 Millions of coral eggs and embryos during two separate spawning events – one in Exmouth and the other in Coral Bay – to save the reefs after a mass bleaching event. But Cyclone Narelle threatened to derail the project.