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Great Barrier Reef: Some Super Cool Critters!

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Chevron Barracuda schooling. Look at the back! They were everywhere!
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Here is Arjun, one of my dive team, and a real sweetheart! This pufferfish was HUGE. We just couldn’t get over the size of it!
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Sameer off of the boat’s dive platform! He was on our dive team on this dive…he was separated from his group.

 

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This nudibranch was so intricately beautiful.
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Another beauty.
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This is a Leopard Shark! At a distance I thought it was a nurse shark … when I saw it was a Leopard, my first sighting ever, I skedaddled to take a photo!
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I wish it would have hung out longer! It was so gorgeous!
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A Great Moray and a Cleaner Shrimp
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This is just too awesome! A Cleaner Shrimp cleaning a Great Moray!
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Truly, this is one of the coolest things I have ever seen and photographed! Just incredible. And no, the Moray does not eat the shrimp, it is cleaning him of parasites.
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Hello….Olive Sea Snake here.

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They were not shy! They were curious about the divers.
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Yes, they are very venomous, but not at all aggressive.
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A pretty Green Sea Turtle
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Gorgeous shoals everywhere.
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How I love diving surrounded by fish!
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Huge Trigger Fish!
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Unicorn Fish…aren’t they cute?

 

As The Spirit of Freedom continued our dives, we ended up seeing some pretty interesting critters, and fabulous activity as well. I had never seen an Olive Sea Snake before…but I have now! I have seen the Banded Sea Snake who is very shy, and very toxic. The Olive Greens were quite curious, and followed us all over the reef!

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