Underwater Photos
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These are Madagascar anenomefish, otherwise known as 'Nemo's cousins'. This picture was taken by Mat, one of the other volunteers, at about 15m depth on one of the dives in an area called Recruitment. I was on this dive, it was one of my favourites, but my picture of these didn't come out quite as well. | |
| This was quite an odd sight - its a sea urchin, echinathrix I think, which has made its home inside a giant clam shell. We usually saw these urchins just hanging around on the bottom, often in groups, but this was the only time I saw one in a shell. |
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This is a Moorish Idol - Gill from 'Nemo' - a fairly common sight around the reef areas. | |
| These are 'Diadema' urchins - just as pointy as the others but with a really pretty ring of blue spots, which look white in the picture. They were an atractive sight as long as you didn't step on them, we only had one urchin casualty which was a volunteer getting spiked in the foot as they were wading out to deeper water to do some training early on. |
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This is a coral formation, known as lettuce coral since it looks like a giant lettuce. We saw it on one of the deeper dives, at about 20m, and it was home to loads of little fish, which seem to have gone a bit camera shy, but at the time it looked a bit like they were in a maze of this stuff. | |
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This is Nemo's other cousin, a Skunk Anenomefish. | |
| Starfish - this was taken on a snorkelling trip, so it was only about 2m down. That's why the colours look a lot brighter than most of the diving pictures. We saw loads of these, and the bright pink Cushion Starfish. |
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I think he's a blue lined snapper but I missed that bit so I'm not sure. We might have eaten some of them. | |
| This was taken by Whitney, who also painted one of these on the wall. Its a juvenile Semicircle Angelfish, as they grow up they lose the dramatic stripes and become a darker shade with spots. We were lucky enough to see the odd one which hadn't lost this colouring. |
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