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CREADO POR Román Díaz
PLEGADO POR Walter Manuel Lemus (WalLem)
LIBRO BOS Convention 2010
Long Reef
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Difficult to describe but a wonderful sight, Montgomery Reef is a reef located off Western Australia's Kimberley coast. The reef is about 20 km (12 ml) off-shore opposite Collier Bay (to the south) and Doubtful Bay (to the east). It has a total area of 400 km2 (154 ml2) making it the largest inshore reef in Australia.
With a length of about 80 km (50 ml), the reef is subject to remarkable tidal movements to a maximum of 10 m (33ft). When the tide is out sandstone islets, vast lagoons and a central mangrove isle are revealed. The outward movement of the tide forms a torrent of water, creating a river cutting through the reef and hundreds of cascading waterfalls. At low tide more than 4 metres (13ft) of reef can be exposed.
Montgomery Reef and island were both named by the first European to sight the isle aboard Mermaid, Philip Parker King (1791-1856), while exploring the region in 1818. He named the island after Andrew Montgomery, ship's surgeon.
When the tide is out-going a series of cascading waterfalls are revealed which attract migrating wading birds, manta rays,feeding turtles, dugongs and black tipped reef sharks.
A tranquil view under the waves in the red sea Egypt. Photo taken by Tony Jacobs with a vivicam underwater camera.
From the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns: taken using a disposable underwater camera while snorkelling.
Today I am celebrating, I am finally able to access flickr again from the device I use most often. To mark the day I am posting three photos of three odd creatures from the reef; none of them seems to have made a flickr appearance from Mauritius before.
Basketstars are not something one normally sees in the day; but at night the reef is covered with them. Their arms wave to and fro in the current and remind me of ferns.
Drop off at Klein Bonaire, a small island off the main island of Bonaire. There is a lot going on here; I count about 10 different fish species although some are hard to see.
Family: Cirrhtidae. Also called Blackside Hawkfish. Tunnels Beach Makua, Haena, North Shore, Kauai, Hawaiian Islands.
A salt water waterfall caused by large tidal changes occurring too quickly to allow all the water to drain from this large horizontal coral reef. The cataract continues for half an hour or more.