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The reef is a silent and strange world of incredible beauty. Coral buttresses, walls and pillars are festooned with algae, sponges, sea fans, anemones, star fish and sea urchins. Shells, crabs, lobsters and ghost shrimp lurk in crevices and there are fish everywhere: silvery shoals of jacks darting above the reef, stately angel fish, porkfish, parrot fish, damsels, surgeons – a whirlwind of iridescent fins and scales. Then the larger inhabitants make their appearance: snappers, groupers, moray eels, rays and sea turtles.
If the reef is spectacular during the day, by night it is dazzling. Colors are brighter, even more fish venture out to feed and the coral is a sea
of waving tentacles as the polyps filter nutrients from the water.
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