How we got there - Tommy asked his friends about taking us over to Atauro Island. Their small boat was an outrigger - and what fun for 2.5 hours. Here is the track
Off to snorkel - just walking out from a nearby jetty - maybe 25 meters. Wow - such color
Fish everywhere - beautiful angel fish, puffer fish, - more
More fish
A massive feather worm
Coral everywhere - just 50 m from the beach
Purple anemone
Cream colored anemone - with purple tips
Pale blue wire-like coral
White soft coral
Tan soft coral
a really amazing green thing - like a plant, quite interesting
CLown hiding in purple tipped white anemone - some video but will need processing
White Christmas tree worm - there were white, blue, yellow and orange Christmas tree worms - so many
Orange Christmas tree worm
Yellow Christmas tree worm
A friendly puffer fish - in the inflated configuration, I think
Another view of the puffer fish
THe color is not quite right - this is a gray sort of plant with spikes for leaves
We had some visitors from the UN - an Airforce group and a ground group - one by car - the other by heliocopter. After a lunch break - I went off to another reef area - mostly hard coral.
A blue star fish
An orange and purple something
ANother amazing blue starfish
Another of the green/black plant-like thing
Another blue star
Blenny
Colorful coral everywhere
A colorful garden
Some sort of Blenny
Tommy - pulling up the anchor
HIlls
Tommy - our friend (and organizer of the trip) and security guard at Discovery Inn (Dili)
C. Frank Starmer