My man, Jumari - we have do so many trips together - he is like another son
The ambient air temp = 32.7 while the water temp was 29.5, down about 0.5 C from a month ago. There was minimal evidence of bleaching - though the recovery seems quite a bit faster than I would have imagined. This time, there are giant clams everywhere. So lots of giant clam photos
Two blue giant clams
A sort of black - white clam
Two clams
Three clams
Green staghorn coral
Acropora
What I call annular coral
An extremely colorful fish
Jumari diving
Jumari giving the thumbs up
ANother giant clam
Acropora building a spiral
FIsh hiding under the Acropora roof
What kind of fish is this?
Another unknown fish
Then lots of giant clams - 1s, 2s, 3s and more
Fish and coral
More colorful fish swimming around the staghorn coral
Closer
and closer
Acropora seascape
Orange giant clam
Need to identify this fish
Soft coral
Sea Urchin
Yellow giant clam
Stone fish - amazing camouflage - or perhaps this is a Goby fish?
Stone fish head (Goby?)
Stonefish (Goby?)
Stonefish (Gogy?)
And more colorful giant clams
Part of Mapur Island
Jumari taking us home
C. Frank Starmer