New Caledonia, Coral Sea, South Pacific
There is troll-binding world hidden beneath the waves. This place, filled with beauty, fascination and surprises, is always calling for me.
As much as I love taking the scuba gear on, I love the simplicity and freedom freediving and snorkelling provide. All one need to start exploring the incredible underwater world is a mask and snorkel.
In this blogpost I´d like to share some shallow water beauties from the New Caledonian lagoon. The majority of the pictures are taken just a couple of meters below the surface, only the photos of the turtle, rays and nurse shark are from 5-7 meters depth.
So here are some of our many aquatic friends, how they commonly are called in english, and their latin names:
Blue-green chromis (Chromis viridis)
Surf parrotfish (Scarus rivulatus)
Zebra shark/Leopard shark (Stegostoma fasciatum)
Bluelined snapper (Lutjanus kasmira)
Whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus)
Fringelip mullet (Crenimugil crenilabis)
New Caledonian sea krait (Laticauda saintgironsi)
Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)
Pink whipray (Pateobatis fai)
Ocellated eagle ray (Aetobatus ocellatus)
Tawny nurse shark (Nebrius ferrugineus)
