One of the prettiest places I’ve been is very close to home. On a sunny day the kelp forests that surround the Channel Islands are gorgeous. The canopy overhead creates the feeling of an enclosed room with the sun’s light rays shining through. The kelp is home to all kinds of critters large and small.
The difficulty is trying to decide whether to use wide angle or macro. There is plenty of both.
On a two week maiden voyage of Kararu’s Voyager through the Banda Sea, we visited an island named Gunungapi or Snake Island. The area is notorious, as it is crawling with banded sea snakes (extremely venomous). I wasn’t too excited about spending a lot of time here for the snakes, but along the outside wall of the dive site was a gorgeous area where giant sponges and multi-colored seafans draped the reef as far as the eye could see. This trip took us to many really pretty areas, but this was one of my favorites. That’s the late Jim Watt, modeling for me.
Bonnie, would you please hold this while I take your picture?
I’ve been surrounded by a lot of ugly, negative people lately, so I decided to post things that are pretty for the next couple of days.
One of the prettiest places I’ve been is Fiji. I’ve made about ten trips there over the years and didn’t find the best diving until I got aboard Nai’a, who took me to Namena. That was years ago and I’ve returned there again, this time on the Fiji Aggressor. The boat was horrible and I would never charter another trip with them, but several of the places we went were absolutely gorgeous! This was taken at a dive site called Ulia’s Find. Thank you Ulia. I loved it!
Last of my “things that could kill you” series of photos is one of my favorites. The great white sharks at Guadalupe Island are some of the most magnificent creatures I’ve seen underwater. Yes, they could eat me in a heartbeat, but that’s not what they want to do. We know it, they know it. It is too bad that the media twist every story about a great white as being an “attack”. Humans kill more sharks in a day than sharks kill humans in a year.
