Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


July 31, 2009: Underwater life at White Sand Island

The water temperature today was 30.1 C, a little cooler than a month ago

There are lots of anemone fish around White Sand island - here is a typical one with an interesting onlooking fish.

jul 31 0075 clown fish

Two clown fish hiding

jul 31 0107 clown fish

Anemone

jul 31 0121 anemone

The patterns and green in this coral are interesting.

jul 31 0082 greenish coral

Another interesting pattern

jul 31 0114 interesting pattern

Some sort of white soft coral with 2 clown fish in the upper left

jul 31 0126 white coral

A green giant clam

jul 31 0131 giant clam

Edi leaving the west side of White Sand and off to the East Side

jul 31 0144 edi

Acropora - many colors

jul 31 0145 table coral

More warm colors

jul 31 0148 blue funnel

Green stag horn coral

jul 31 0152 green staghorn

A black fish

jul 31 0156 black fish

Different types of colorful coral.

jul 31 0159 green staghorn

Looking across a colony

jul 31 0162 table coral

Rust-colored Acropora

jul 31 0164 brown acropora

This looks like bunches of green grapes

jul 31 0171 green grapes

What I call a funnel coral

jul 31 0174 funnel

More Acropora

jul 31 0177 acropora

Brain Coral

jul 31 0181 coral

A colony of Acropora

jul 31 0186 close staghorn

A brown something

jul 31 0187 brown something

Brown staghorn coral

jul 31 0190 staghorn

Blue something

jul 31 0196 blue coral

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C. Frank Starmer

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