Heteractis magnifca and macrodactyla doreensis in their natural habitat thailand pic

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After enjoying Lewy's thread about the nems and other critter on display at low tide in Darwin Australia I thought it would be nice to see the low tide flora and fauna of Thailand Andaman coast off Ko lanta. These shots are taken extremeley close to a river estuary that has extensive mangrove, less than a mile, The water is most often turbid, but in the dry season you do get some good snorkeling conditions. These shots were on a large flat muddy bay with a couple of beautiful mangrove trees close to shore that were inthe sea when the tide was in!
The coral and nems are about 800m out from the beach surrounding a rocky spit of land which separated this beach from the nect one that was your more classic thai beach (rocky headland with a fringing reef followed by a long stunning golden sand beach) look http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=7.646005,99.034624&spn=0.076476,0.130548&t=h&z=14&msid=107883027535838567863.00047d46b6c632c288704 here. Anyway one pic for now an LTA see the periclemes? shrimp bottom left
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As I mentioned there were two stunning mangrove trees in the bay
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This is a close up of the one on the left(smaller one)
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OMG!!!! I had no idea they lived in water that shallow.:eek1: How often does the tide get that low? Those are awesome pic's. Thanks soooo much.:beer:
 
I love the first photo. Do you see the little anemone shrimp?

OMG the Google Map link is AWESOME!!! What a fantastic way to specifically locate where you are!!!!!
 
Thanks all, I also had no Idea the elegance were in this type of habitat, next to them I found this also. I think its a torch or a hammer
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There were also several lots of gonis
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