Hi everyone. Today is exceptionally exciting - we are going coral collecting!
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On the way to the wharf, we stopped at this bread store to buy uh "bread". We will eat the bread and canned mackerel for lunch.
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We also picked up some pastries for breakfast.
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Two loaves of bread, some drinks, and two cans of mackerel for lunch. I discovered five years ago that canned mackerel and bread is the perfect food while out on the water.
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We got to the wharf and started to load the boat with dive equipment and containers to hold corals.
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Two five gallons of gasoline should be enough for today.
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Here is a view as we left the wharf to the collecting grounds.
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We saw a whale, probably a humpback as they are common here in Tonga.
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We tried to get closer to get a better picture, but the whale dove and disappeared. You can see the tail in this picture. Later we saw another whale jump out of the water! I didn't have my camera handy and missed it, but still it was exciting!
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So we got to the collecting grounds. It was away from the islands and middle of nowhere. This was a shallow reef, so shallow that waves were breaking over the rocks.
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We anchored in about 15 feet of water. It was super clear.
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No dumping on the boat, Teau! Anyhow, if you got to go and no toilet, then this is how you do it - over the edge! Then, you simply splash some water and you're done. I told Teau that I was going to put this picture on my blog and he said "no you wouldn't" - and I said ha ha I have to, because it is my job to report embarrassing things!
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After doing his thing, Tau and Teau get ready to dive for corals.
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With a collecting bin, the guys are off!
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I have not been on a boat in a while, or at least out in the sea for a long period. I started to get sea sick. I found out that for me, when I start feeling not so good, I eat some of this canned mackerel and feel much better. Don't know why, but bread and mackerel works for me.
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The bread is not cut, so I just rip pieces out.
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The other guys like to eat with heavy butter but I prefer plain dipped in the juice! Note that I also have a wet suit on, but didn't feel good to go into the water yet.
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One of the tricks of not getting sea sick is to keep busy doing something. I grabbed my fishing pole and caught this banana wrasse!
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Pretty fish! A young male banana wrasse caught with chunks of turbo snails.
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Soon after I caught the fish, the guys came back with corals!
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Here are some that were collected. The corals are pale in color because the photos are taken in sun light. Under aquarium lights, these would look really nice.
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After using all of the scuba tanks, it was time to head back. We passed this little charming island on the way home.
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By the time we got back to the wharf, the sun was setting. Other boaters were coming back as well. In this case, coming back from a sea cucumber hunt!
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A local guy fishing on the wharf, wonder if he is catching anything?
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The guys were waiting by to pick us up.
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We unloaded the boat and headed for the fisheries place. We temporarily rented some tanks to hold our corals.
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As the sun was setting, I took these pictures with flash. You really have to put the corals under proper lights to see the true colors, but at least you get the idea. This is a metallic orange scolymia.
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Tonga is known for their Pavona maldivensis. They come in orange and green, but this strange specimen seems purplish green - way cool!
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A nice leptastrea with pink purplish centers! The divers tell me that it was red in the ocean.
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Another leptastrea species. This one is orange with green bluish centers!
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Strange marbled favia - red, pink, and lavendar!
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Nice pink and yellow favia!
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Check out this large montipora. It is purple but has green high-lights!
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A nice red lobophyllia!
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This lobo looks brown, but actually it is orange - green.
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Another Pavona maldivensis. This one is an orange green plating specimen.
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The flash made this very nice cyphastrea look dull. I think it has red polyps!
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A blue green favites, or could be a goniastrea!
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Another nice purple encrusting montipora. Tonga has encrusting and plating types of montiporas, but I have yet to see the swirling kind.
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Strange green and pinkish Acan subechinata!
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A very large echinophyllia. You can't see it, but actually it has red eyes! Fraggers dream come true.
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One of my favorite montis from Tonga, the famous peltiformis!
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Another chalice with red eyes!
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This tongue looking coral is actually a fungid. Tonga doesn't have much of these type of corals and certainly orange ones like this one, is pretty rare.
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A cute little echinophyllia chalice. Appears green pink with peach eyes.
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Pink and white chalice with darker pink eyes!
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Nice looking Acanthastrea subechinata.
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Another nice purple montipora!
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This large echino looks brown, but actually it is red with red eyes!
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Probably this yellow leather is the most famous Tongan coral. It is one of those bread and butters out of Tonga.
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This green finger leather is also a popular Tongan soft coral.
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Cute little purple astreopora!
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Strange looking green encrusting montipora with purplish polyps. Tau, who found the coral swears he saw red polyps. Perhaps under the proper lighting, red polyps can be seen.
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Another cool looking chalice. I can tell the base color has green but appears brown with the flash photo. Note the cool little whitish pink blotches.
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A tiny little favia - orange, green and white!
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Green euphyllias are uncommon in Tonga. This nice little Euphyllia cristata happened to be one of those "uncommon" pieces.
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Nice montipora, great shape and color - purplish green!
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Another Pavona maldivensis. This one is orange green. Under low halides, these corals turn into metallic superstars!
Conclusion
Ok guys that is it for today. I hoped you enjoyed this post. Tomorrow we will be going out to collect corals again. It is now 1 in the morning and I am very tired. Posting every day is a staggering amount of work!
Cheers,
Eddie
2 comments:
What do you do with these corals? Do you sale any? If so where can I go to look and buy?
Thanks for a greeat read
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