Great Barrier Reef Album

Fungia and Pectinia and a variety of other coral genera.
Goniastrea being overgrown by red algae.
Green urn tunicates and fuzzy cyanobacteria growing on branching Acropora colony.
Humbug Dascyllus on Stylophora coral.
Mushroom coral are mobile but cannot outrun a Crown-of-thorns Seastar.
Red algae clump on Diploastrea coral.
Sarcophyton leather coral within stand of Porites finger coral.
Small Acropora growing on top of a Porites lobata coral.
Sunset over table lands.
Tan sea fan.
Anemonefish in host Adhesive Anemone (Stichodactyla sp.).
Watching a beautiful sunset from onboard the Shadow.
Crown-of-thorns climbing up columnar Porites coral.
The dive boat Calcutta parked on its trolly on the aft deck of the Shadow.
False Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) in its host Magnificent Anemone
Giant clam profile showing the many thousands of tiny
Grace Frank during a survey dive.
Longfin Spadefish (Platax teira) swimming in the opposite direction as a coral reef surveyor.
Panoramic view of the foredeck of the Shadow at dusk.
Phil Renaud and Katie Lubarsky onboard the Calcutta dive boat.
Recovering the Calcutta on the elevator deck of the Shadow at the end of a long day.
Yogi Freund shooting Phyllidia nudibranch.
Photographer Jürgen Yogi Freund
Blue and Yellow Fusilier (Caesio teres)
Field of Turbinaria coral
Giant clams (Tridacna gigas)
Giant Trevally (Caranx ignobilis)
Gray Reef Shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) in silhouette.
Jürgen Yogi Freund
Longfin Spadefish (Platax teira)
Brett Taylor driving the stereo-cam which is used to estimate the length of sharks.
Snubnose Pompano (Trachinotus blochi)
Turbinaria
Whitetip Reef Shark (Trianodon obesus)
Assortment of color variations of Acropora table corals.
Bluespotted Grouper (Cephalopholis cyanostigma)
Bluespotted Puffer (Arothron caeruleopunctatus).
Chromodoris lochi nudibranch
Close-up of Montipora coral showing small blue polyps.
Close-up of Pachyseris coral with odd growth anomalies.

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