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Well, the recent Honeymoon stop off in Fiji gave us the chance to use our diving gear including the water proof camera. Below is a sneak preview. I may well put the rest up some time but will probably host on a seperate sight as we took quite a few pictures (over 4,600 were taken throughout the Honeymoon according to iPhotos).
Most of the pics are from the lagoon which the resort was basically on top of. The lagoon had a load of nice corals and fish in it and the shallow depth meant everything retained almost all its colour. There were plenty of shoals of chromis which would dive into their coral head upon being spooked:
There was a pretty puffer cruising around the lagoon as well as a few shoals of butterflyfish feeding:
You can see here why these urchins are called collector urchins. It's pretty groovy to watch in the wild, but a real pain when they start carrying around the clean up crew in your reef tank.
The obligatory Nem with hosting clowns (7 here IIRC)
Across the floor of the lagoon were many sea cucumbers which I presume were filtering out their food as they wandered around. The fact they grow larger than 4 feet in length and have mouths resembling the worms in Tremors made most people uneasy about seeing them:
They did allow me a pretty cool shot of a food's eye shot though:
And to make you suddenly very wary of where you put your feet there were a few Crown of Thorns starfish hanging around:
Everyone's favourite bivalve invert was there too (as in a Trdacnid clam)
But by far my favourite animal to shoot was a snowflake moray (I assume it is an Echinda nebulosa, and a large one at that going by its girth). It even opened up the jaws for me.
We did also go diving out of Votua Village at a site called Morgan's Wall. Was strange for me as my beswt viz up to now was 5m and suddenly I had a minimum of 20m viz, more than even the swimming pools I have practiced in. It was alos nice to dive in a 3mm wetsuit, and not a two piece 7mm suit (drysuit will be purchased next month hopefully). First up is a shot of a pair of clams (each over a foot long and somewhat larger than the one in the lagoon)
This shot gives you an idea of the huge amount of fish that reside on a reef. It is truly bizarre to see just so many fish in one place:
And finally, here is me in the dive gear looking intently interested in something else:
Most of the pics are from the lagoon which the resort was basically on top of. The lagoon had a load of nice corals and fish in it and the shallow depth meant everything retained almost all its colour. There were plenty of shoals of chromis which would dive into their coral head upon being spooked:
There was a pretty puffer cruising around the lagoon as well as a few shoals of butterflyfish feeding:
You can see here why these urchins are called collector urchins. It's pretty groovy to watch in the wild, but a real pain when they start carrying around the clean up crew in your reef tank.
The obligatory Nem with hosting clowns (7 here IIRC)
Across the floor of the lagoon were many sea cucumbers which I presume were filtering out their food as they wandered around. The fact they grow larger than 4 feet in length and have mouths resembling the worms in Tremors made most people uneasy about seeing them:
They did allow me a pretty cool shot of a food's eye shot though:
And to make you suddenly very wary of where you put your feet there were a few Crown of Thorns starfish hanging around:
Everyone's favourite bivalve invert was there too (as in a Trdacnid clam)
But by far my favourite animal to shoot was a snowflake moray (I assume it is an Echinda nebulosa, and a large one at that going by its girth). It even opened up the jaws for me.
We did also go diving out of Votua Village at a site called Morgan's Wall. Was strange for me as my beswt viz up to now was 5m and suddenly I had a minimum of 20m viz, more than even the swimming pools I have practiced in. It was alos nice to dive in a 3mm wetsuit, and not a two piece 7mm suit (drysuit will be purchased next month hopefully). First up is a shot of a pair of clams (each over a foot long and somewhat larger than the one in the lagoon)
This shot gives you an idea of the huge amount of fish that reside on a reef. It is truly bizarre to see just so many fish in one place:
And finally, here is me in the dive gear looking intently interested in something else:
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), and four Caribbean reef sharks, oh, and I went swimming with a few Southern Stingrays! I want to see a Great White. That would be incredible!
