Amazing snorkeling today. The coral river adjacent motu TauTau is just phenomenal. These are a few of my favorite fish.
First is the Picasso Triggerfish. It's obvious what inspired the Picasso part of the name.
Next I was able to capture two nice fish in one picture.
The lower fish is a Rabbitfish and above is Checkerboard wrasse. The Rabbitfish looks sort of like brain coral or a maze. They're monochromatic, but still striking. Entirely the opposite is the wrasse. The coloring on the wrasse is hard to capture, it's absolutely iridescent. I think the amount of checkerboard versus green and hot pink waves changes as they develop as we saw them a more or less checkerboard.
And then finally the Orange Lipped Triggerfish. One of the drawbacks of this location is the abundance of urchins. There were hundreds of these long spined black urchins, lurking under every clump of coral.
Some of the fish names are so obvious. Like Big Eyes that have - you guessed - big eyes! But I don't know who came up with Rabbitfish or Triggerfish.
