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Australia
Great Barrier Reef & Coral Sea
Diving on the Spoilsport
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False Clownfish Anemone fish
aNEMOne fish
Teira
Batfish
Teira
Batfish
White Tipped Reef Shark
Reef Scallop - The red-orange dots are it's eyes!
Unlike clams, scallops can swim and they can rest in unlikely places,
like in the middle of this coral.
Moorish Idols
Christmas Tree Worm
Crinoid
Soft Coral
Pineapple
Sea Cucumber
Sweetlips - maybe Silver or Giant species
Yours truly trying to get a shot of the Potato Cod, which is a large
grouper.
Grouper and fellow divers
Jessica behind a giant clam
Lionfish
Moray Eel
Napoleon Wrasse
Anemone fish
Nudibranch
This Nudibranch had a very very small shrimp or something on it, perhaps
cleaning it.
Parrot fish at night
Sharks - mostly White Tip Reef Sharks
Remora or Sharksucker. These were attached to the sharks and would
sometimes try to attach to us.
Speckled Sandperch
Double-saddle Butterflyfish, a Latticed Butterflyfish and a pair of
Black-Backed Butterflyfish
Pennant Bannerfish
Arc-Eye Hawkfish
Red Brittle Starfish on White Coral with Blue Christmas Tree worm
Green Urn Sea Squirts
Hiding, but curious
Damselfish checking me out
Two beautiful Pacific Sailfin Tang. Check out below what
they look like when they extend their fins..
Pacific Sailfin Tang.. Awesome!
Giant Clams
Each clam had a different pattern.
A Humpnose Unicornfish followed by Trevally
Sea Cucumber and Titan Triggerfish
Morrison's Dragonet -
(Synchiropus morrisoni) - related to the
mandarinfish
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Morrison's Dragonet (Synchiropus morrisoni)
Longnose Butterflyfish (Forcipiger longirostris)
Brightly colored Mushroom or Razor Coral
Not sure if the small guy is about to clean the bigger Pufferfish or serve as
it's dinner.
I do think the bigger one might be an algae eater though.
Sable Squirrelfish ..about 18 inches long
Threadfin Butterflyfish (Chaetodon auriga)
Moorish Idol
Coming up to check out where the boat is.
Sea Pearls - These are single cell Green Algae that are up to 2 inches
across. I have seen them in Bonaire as well. They are probably the
largest single cell creatures around. Coated with lavender crust algae.
Slingjaw Wrasse
Moorish Idol
This Potato Cod was hanging out at the shark dive
Getting back on the boat.. the way all these dives end. Hopefully.
Australian flag and gull
Mike Ball's Spoilsport anchored at Lizard Island, where we took the
small plane
back down the Great Barrier Reef to Cairns to continue our trip
Next stop > Daintree, Cape Tribulation
and the outback to Cooktown
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