Blue Lagoon - More Photos
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Mike and Liz Downing
Tue 21 Aug 2012 01:31
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More pictures from the Blue Lagoon, some
from underwater when exploring the reefs - there are several good ones
close by.
 The southern entrance to the Blue Lagoon, as
shown on the chartplotter using Navionics Gold
charts, not forgetting that white/blue is
sea, yellow is land and green is reef!
The blue line is our course
from Google Earth, showing that there is actually quite a wide channel through
the reef. In this parts of Fiji there are whole islands shown on the charts
that don't exist when you get there, and we found at least one island that
was there, but not shown on the charts. It keeps you on your toes!
We've easily spent more time preparing routes in Fiji than we have anywhere else
we've been.
 An evening meal ashore at the resort with
Canadian friends on Sarah Jane II. Those are not stars
in the background, but flames from
the lights, many of them suspended from the palm trees,
giving a lovely
atmosphere.
 At anchor with our mooring ball up for the
first time since we arrived in Fiji - just in case
the Flyer gets too
close!
 A feeding frenzy - at one special spot
the resort boats feed the fish, so they all
get excited
whenever a boat
arrives.
 Do we want to get out of the dinghy amongst
this lot? We had been told that if you don't bring
some food, they have a nip at you instead, so cover up.
 And this is what it looks like when you do
go in. We had wetsuits on, so not a problem.
 Two different types of
bannerfish.
 The very oddly constructed
boxfish.
 This is the first time we have ever seen one
of these and were very lucky to do so. It's a
many-spotted sweetlips juvenile. The adults
are quite different.
 More
butterflyfish.
 A clam tucked away within the
coral.
 A coral with it's polyps out
feeding.
 The biggest octopus we have seen, hiding in
the coral.
 We assume it was able to sense our
presence and it started to turn white to blend in with
the
surroundings.
 Now very
white.
 We see these pipefish all the time and
so rarely take a photo of one.
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