My partner, friend of my partner, Spyder and I spend several days on Lady Elliot Island on the great barrier reef. In addition to the aquatic life pictured here, we also saw from the porch in front of our room dolphins and whales jumping about. You could also hear the humpedback whales singing to each other while snorkling. It was an absolutely amazing experience (apart from the half hour we thought my parter had drowned or been swept off to see of something). I'd thoroughly recommend a visit there if you can make it.
I just got my underwater photos developed so here they are in no particular order. Unfortunately, the colours are nowhere near as vivid as in real life, but you get an idea. I'll get around to posting the digital camera pics a little later
Small sting ray with blue spots (kinda hard to tell from the picture)
A black tipped reef shark down in the corner there
A small reef shark close up to shore (in about only 12 inches of water) feeding on something
They had bright blue starfish
Couple of parrot fish
Cool looking coral.
More cool coral
To give you an idea of the quanitity of fish in the reef
A cute little squid. He was rainbow iridescent, but unfortunately that doesn't show up on film.
I don't remember these fellows names
A sea cucumber and a brain coral
Parrot fish
More coral
Parrot fish
Butterfly fish, I think they were
Parrotfish with some Sergeant Majors around.
I like parrotfish
Turtle
My partner's friend. I'm surprised he didn't killed with all the poisonous things (turtle excepted) he kept poking and proding.
Picasso Trigger fish
Some big fish toward the bottom of the reef
Huge stingray that was sitting on the bottom of the reef. He was about 5 meters away to give you as estimate of his size from the picture. He had one wicked looking barb on his tail
Huge stingray now moving from his location on the bottom of the reef
Moon Wrasse
Turtle again
Giant sea urchin
Giant clam
Cool little neon blue fish that were all over.
A little lizardfish which uses its fins to crawl along the bottle of the ocean. Score 1 for evolution.
Can't remember this chaps name
Angelfish I believe
A whole school of Sergeant Majors
Lots of little tiny black and white fish swimming around the coral.
My partner petting a turtle
Me and a turtle
More little blue fish.
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Goddamn, some of those underwater shots are fucking Amazing .
Hope you had as much fun as it seems you had, and did you make sure not to touch the coral or to swim to close to the "floor"? (And thus kicking up rocks, sand).
Hope you had as much fun as it seems you had, and did you make sure not to touch the coral or to swim to close to the "floor"? (And thus kicking up rocks, sand).
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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
I had a wetsuit because I'm always cold, so I was very buoyant and stayed at the surface of the water.. In general, people tried to avoid the ocean floor, as that's where poisonous things can lurk (stingrays, stonefish, etc).DEATH wrote:Goddamn, some of those underwater shots are fucking Amazing .
Hope you had as much fun as it seems you had, and did you make sure not to touch the coral or to swim to close to the "floor"? (And thus kicking up rocks, sand).
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