The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

This post is all about the corals and grasses.

There were some pretty cool fan corals.

There were many sponges and sea squirts.

The corals were sometimes really bright colours.

Other times they just grew in cool shapes.

Everything on the the reef grows on top of each other if it can.

Lots of the coral grow in cool shapes.

Okay so urchins do move but really slowly. They hide during the day so they don’t get eaten.

Even in tiny areas there are so many different types of coral.

We weren’t really sure what this was. It is brightly coloured so it might be a worm or sea slug.

Most of the “stuff that doesn’t move” filter the water for plankton to eat.

The bommies are giant pillars of corals, built on old coral, with new coral growing on top.

The day and night can look quite different with some organisms closed up.

Even within individual corals cool patterns form.

We always had to keep our distance so as not to damage the coral although sometimes this was because it might sting.

Matt liked to try to get close as we progressed through more and more dives.