Had a great holiday here are a few pics of the corals exposed at low tide

Leathers out of water

View from our room

Fay & Frog with Dive Instructor Tawake A great guy looked after us well

we are PADI open water divers now

It was mind blowing to see the fish and corals etc

nice pics, got anymore.

lots of the coral look brown.

nice pics, got anymore.

lots of the coral look brown.

It's probabley due to being exposed to the tide

I think it is better to be a brown coral as you will have a better life.

cool how ther are out of the water.

Great pics Fay.

Wow! All the effort I'm putting in trying to grow those things, and there they are, just laying around!

Does anyone keep reef tanks over there? (other than the commercial exporters)

Oh man that holiday must have sucked! you won't be going back in a hurry

IMHO lots of reefs look brown in person... the collecters collect the "colourfull ones.. from the brown reefs!

exceptions are places like Tioman island - reefs are technicolour, - like photoshop piccies!

poor knights island - awesome - and temperate water!

ie. if you choose the 10 ten dive sites you will see lots of colour....

average reef = quite a few brown corals!

We made some lovely friends and they are going to post a disk of all the underwater photos he took, they are from Sydney and are long time divers and great fun. will post them up when I get them.

Jetski we are going to go back next year it took 5 days to pass the dive course and we had three dives on the reef, but they have heaps of sites to dive on.

We did 3 off shore dives in the course and even that was great.

Yes I remember being a little dissapointed when I dove in Indonesia, most of the stuff was brown, even the anemones.

I think it's like my wifes flower garden. She wants it to look great so she buys all the colorful stuff. So coral collectors are going to target the nice colors also.

i did dive around komodo island / flores etc

WAY BROWN but amazing reefs!

and the water is crystal clear!

perhaps the colourfull ones we love are the freaks of the sea!

This Mark in front on right he is going to send me his underwater shots

Here is a sample he sent by email

Morays - beautiful !