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Underwater photos of reef in Timor


ryanjury

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Last weekend we went to the beach and took some snorkling gear one of my friends took his new camera and these are some of the photos that he took...

This is just off a random beach and reefs like this seem to surround Timor was awesome to see..

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I was very lucky to avoid this shark..

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the photos aren't mine but they're cool just thoguht I should share what it is really like down there.

lol yeah photoshop is awesome aye that photo cracked me up so had to share it.

Yep thats me pasty white theres only a couple of us that aren't tanned over here.. I just end up being 1 of 2 colours pasty white or angry red and peeling so stay out of the sun! lol Don't worry I get heaps about it.

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Yep thats me pasty white theres only a couple of us that aren't tanned over here.. I just end up being 1 of 2 colours pasty white or angry red and peeling so stay out of the sun! lol Don't worry I get heaps about it.

Glad Im not the only one with that problem.

When I was in fiji, the fijian boys used to call me 'Vanilla"

and kept going on about how chocolate is much better than Vanilla :oops:

Then after our day out snorkling they started to call me strawberry cos of the sunburn.

They thought it was hilarious

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When I was in fiji, the fijian boys used to call me 'Vanilla"

and kept going on about how chocolate is much better than Vanilla :oops:

Then after our day out snorkling they started to call me strawberry cos of the sunburn.

They thought it was hilarious

Thats because it is Hilarious :lol: :lol:

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lol Si glad someone else feels my pain :) Its all fun and games though, I think the photo makes me look more white than I am.. I'm hoping that my pasty whiteness and sun avoidance will mean im less likely to get cancer later in life..

Dave+amy I am unsure about the coral and fishes temperature tolerances.. We waded through rockpools with corals and fish in them when the tide was right out and they were uncomfortably hot (40ish) so take it the corals etc are quite hardy?

It was an amazing experience I don't know why I didn't do it in new caledonia when I had the chance.. Instead I went to the aquarium and saw them all and stayed dry :) Have posted some pics of that in saltwater too.

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Coral reefs only have tolerances around a couple of degrees, any higher then the dinoflagellates (symbionts of coral) die off so hence 'coral bleaching' without dinoflagellates = coral starves.

learnt in my conservation paper that climate change will mean an increase of 5degrees cel over the next hundred years (which is BAD news for the Tuataras too)...they are trying some weird as experiments with Tuataras at the moment in prep for the future

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