Petit Byahaut (July 15-17)

Coral wall of New Guinea Reef (Jul 16, 2004, 02:49pm) Daphne and I agree that the New Guinea Reef was some of the best snorkling of the entire trip. As obvious from this picture, the wall of covered with a large variety of different corals and coral co-habitating creatures. We did not swim for long (around 30 minutes) or go very far, but as you can tell from this next group of underwater pictures, there was a lot of interesting things to see packed into this short swim.

Close-up of a yellow tube sponge (Jul 16, 2004, 02:43pm)

Yellow tube sponge with christmas tree hydroid (Jul 16, 2004, 02:44pm)