BigTuna321
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that is really cool
How rare is this?
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chrisstie
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I'm afraid to ask how you had the.. you must have some large thunder from down under to manage to shoo the ocotopus into a bucket for a photo, I would be running away from it crying! 
I have heard about the large tides but I don't think I can really imagine it without standing there to see.
Strangely your area looks like where I grew up on the south west coast of Florida, USA, at a glance. I was looking at the vegitation and the rock and coral since you're so much closer to the equator and its a whole different world. I love studying the details of a place thank you so much for showing the pictures that you did.
So did you find the angel stuck in a tidepool or was he just extremely friendly? That is really cool!
I have heard about the large tides but I don't think I can really imagine it without standing there to see.
Strangely your area looks like where I grew up on the south west coast of Florida, USA, at a glance. I was looking at the vegitation and the rock and coral since you're so much closer to the equator and its a whole different world. I love studying the details of a place thank you so much for showing the pictures that you did.
So did you find the angel stuck in a tidepool or was he just extremely friendly? That is really cool!
awesome pics,
I too wonder how you got the octopus into the bucket
I too wonder how you got the octopus into the bucket
WOW, I must say that little clownfish and the large carpet were awesome to start with but then these follow up pics are to cool. I love seeing these kind of threads. I cannot imagine having anything to do with that Octy...you are way brave...or maybe something else, LOL. Thank you so much for sharing. Please keep sharing your pictures and adventures here with us. It is wonderful to see that kind of Mother Nature 
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colorfan45
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Must be great there.
Lewy
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13939917#post13939917 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chrisstie
I'm afraid to ask how you had the.. you must have some large thunder from down under to manage to shoo the ocotopus into a bucket for a photo, I would be running away from it crying!
I have heard about the large tides but I don't think I can really imagine it without standing there to see.
Strangely your area looks like where I grew up on the south west coast of Florida, USA, at a glance. I was looking at the vegitation and the rock and coral since you're so much closer to the equator and its a whole different world. I love studying the details of a place thank you so much for showing the pictures that you did.
So did you find the angel stuck in a tidepool or was he just extremely friendly? That is really cool!
Someone else caught the octopus with a long handled net. The blue rings can apparently release toxics into the water as well. So you have to be careful. He was the third that we saw that day.
Large tides are amazing and goes to show how tough and resilient the corals are in our area. They also have to tolerate a few hours exposed to sunlight and in the tide pools which get very hot.
Our corals are generally very bland. Browns and light greens. But we do get some fluoro green heliofunias and bright purple gonis. We put it down to the large tidal variations and the turbid water it produces.
I'll take some photos of the are when the tides are in to show the difference.
We found the scribbled angel in a small pool. Because we didn't have nets. We caught it using our hands and coralled it into the bucket. First go we caught a large margined butterfly which we released. The warmer weather must be breeding season as their were al least 6 butterfly fish in every pool!!.
chrisstie
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13941777#post13941777 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Lewy
Funny you should mention that. There are crocs in the area. But they do not like the rough coral bottoms and do not venture out when the tides are that low.
We also go out to the area at night time as well. Now that is fun and scary.
Just shine a flashlight around and stay away from any eyes that shine back
Thanks again for sharing that is really magnificent. I think one day I would like to visit where you can walk right out to a reef like that. It really is amazing what painstaking things people go through for their corals in their tanks and yet they manage to live through the tides and critters in the wild.
While I live in FL now I'm hoping to eventually move out to Washington state which is on the west coast of the USA just south of Canada. While there wont be reefs and stuff there I am hoping there would be rocks and interesting live tucked into nooks and crannys so I would be able to walk along and discover things just like you are. Thats what I miss most about not being located near the shore right now. Just discovering little neat things!
I can't imagine little butterflies being everywhere. Maybe they get caught in the pools for feeding on the corals or things nearby them?
Gary Majchrzak
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ditto
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