The north-east shore of Royal Island is protected by a barrier reef extending up from Eleuthera.  There is a vast area of shallow water with coral formations that are still fairly alive.  Andrea and I walked across the island from the harbour, with our snorkel gear, and swam along the shore.

 

There were a lot of glass bottles thrown into the water off the island and, being the glass enthusiast, Andrea got quite excited with some of them. 

 

The Pertussin bottle is a 50’s medicine bottle.  The base of the black glass bottle is an eighteenth century hand blown wine (or pirate rum) bottle 

 

This sea hare is about 8 inches long.  It looks like someone doodled on its back with a pen.

 

Some of the sea urchins are a vivid red colour

 

A pair of French Angelfish

 

The vivid colours of the juvenile Queen Angelfish

 

The Spotted Trunkfish likes areas of coral surrounded with seagrass