Ocean Safari Blog

I envy the local dive guides who get so intimately familiar with dive sites and the resident wildlife in the area. This Napoleon wrasse and our dive guide have developed a special bond between them over the years. There is such trust that the fish would swim over to him and let him touch it and even hug it! I was filled with awe to witness this display of inter-species friendship.

Colonies of cabbage coral (Turbinaria reniformis) sometimes forms tiers which offer good hiding place for school of fish like these soldierfish. The red fish are big-scale soldierfish (Myripristis berndti) and the whitish fish are shadowfin soldierfish (Myripristis adusta). A large field of cabbage coral colonies like this image taken in the South Pacific is rarely seen anywhere else in the world.

In the warm and clear waters of the South Pacific, you can fly over the colorful coral garden made up of layers of table coral, finger coral, antler coral, etc. It is an amazing sight.

Sometimes we need to stop and appreciate the beauty of a quiet scene like this: a broken pier silhouetted against the background of the vast ocean.

All for one and one for all! The three musketeers unite to protect their home against a giantess. Anemonefish are very territorial and they protect their sea anemone homes by aggresively chasing away anything that gets too close.