Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

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

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