For the last day on the island we left the students at the hotel and went snorkeling/diving. Here are the shots from our last day of snorkelling, dive photos/videos to come later!
Finally reefs that are alive!!!
Old Acropora palmata (elkhorn coral) with Dr. Carlie Kerans for scale.
With scale...
Little coral patches between the bigger reefs
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| Bubbles! |
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Thalassa grasses stabilizing the sediment
On to the next site!
More A. palmata
Corky sea finger
Storm rubble, a.k.a. overturned A. palmata
Charlie with some awesome sand waves!
Intrepid field trip leaders Charlie and Steve!
Porites porites
West Caicos
Acropora cervicornis (staghorn coral)
This is the biggest thicket of it I have ever seen!
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| It's like a forest! |
Madracis auretenra (yellow pencil coral)
A huge colony!
Agaricia sp.
This colony of Madracis auretenra was the size of a minivan, if not, a school bus!
Check out how it erodes when it dies!
Anemone
This ray is trying to hide from us!
Black band disease on a coral
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