Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


Sepember 3, 2010:Snorkelling around Mapur

The trail from Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal to BBT terminal to Bintan Agro Beach Resort - then a ride with Henly and snorkelling at Mapur Island

Sunrise breakfast - banana pancake by Herman Zabuza - each morning Herman brings a surprise - before the restaurant opens - fried bananas or this time banana pancake (martabak pisang)

sep 03 9099 sunrise breakfast

Later fried bananas

sep 03 9121 pisang goreng

and a 2nd cup of coffee - Remember this is about 6am - an hour before Asiana opens - the staff is always quite forgiving of my sunrise visits and adapts to provide coffee and banana things - my favorites

sep 03 9124 2nd cup coffee

Still life of pisang goreng and 2nd cup of coffee - Mapur island in the background

sep 03 9132 2nd cup

Sunrise fisherman

sep 03 9136 sunrise fisherman

Lotus

sep 03 9142 white lotus

Lotus

sep 03 9144 fire lotus

Frangipani

sep 03 9150 frangipani

Blue and orange lotus

sep 03 9152 fire lotus

Lina

sep 03 9154 lina

Sina

sep 03 9158 sina

Yohanna

sep 03 9161 yohanna

Hari

sep 03 9164 harianto

Santi

sep 03 9174 santi

Eka

sep 03 9177 eka

Santi

sep 03 9180 santi

Then off to Mapur Island with Jumari, Widi and Florence

sep 03 2775 widi jumari

Florence

sep 03 2776 florence

Jumari standing on the ocean floor

sep 03 2778 jumari

Pink and blue giant clam

sep 03 2779 pink blue giant clam

Giant clam

sep 03 2781 blue giant clam

I have started exploring the time relationship of coral bleaching. The bleaching is a result of high water temperatures. Each visit, I measure the temperature looking for correlations with coral health.

 Temp
Feb 13    29.4C   (no bleaching)
March 13, 30.3C   (no bleaching)
June 18   31.1C   (no bleaching)
July 9    31.1C   (minimal bleaching)
Sept 3    30.2    (significant bleaching)
I suspect that the exposure to high temps of June, July and August is enough to cause off migration of the microorganizms that bring color to the coral - but the bleaching is not obvioius for a month or so

sep 03 2791 bleached acropora

Green acroproa

sep 03 2793 green acropora

I suspect this is a bleached christmas tree worm

sep 03 2797 christmas tree worm

This is an unbleached Widi - floating without life jacket

sep 03 2798 widi

More bleaching

sep 03 2804 bleached acropora

Fairly dramatic bleaching

sep 03 2806 bleached acropora

Interesting green coral

sep 03 2809 green rods

Bleached honeycomb coral

sep 03 2812 bleaching

Sea urchin

sep 03 2825 sea urchin

Giant clam

sep 03 2827 giant clam

Pink acropora

sep 03 2836 pink acropora

sep 03 2837 green acropora

sep 03 2864 healthy acropora

sep 03 2868 acropora fish

sep 03 2869 blue giant crab

sep 03 2872 green giant clams

sep 03 2875 jumari

sep 03 2876 honey comb

sep 03 2881 jumari dive

sep 03 2903 widi jumari florence

sep 03 3845 sea urchin

sep 03 9059 christmas tree worm

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