In November 2016, we made a long-planned trip to Fiji to celebrate Sue’s 70th birthday. We spent 10 days aboard the fabulous Fiji Siren and got to dive five areas — Vatu-I-Ra, Namena Marine Reserve, Wakaya Island, Gau Island/Nigali Passage, and Taveuni.
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- Heading out to board the Fiji Siren
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- A singing welcome from the crew!
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- Awesome dive deck
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- Colorful soft coral
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- More colors
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- White scorpion leaf fish
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- Longfin bannerfish
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- Black crinoid
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- Soft coral
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- Pipefish
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- Lionfish
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- Titan triggerfish
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- Crinoid
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- Many-spotted sweetlips, waiting to be cleaned
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- Lionfish
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- Shrimp
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- Dwarf hawkfish
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- Nudibranch
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- Lionfish
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- Closed crinoid
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- Open crinoid
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- Cleaner shrimp
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- Nudibranch
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- Damselfish
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- Nudibranch
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- Banded coral shrimp
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- Nudibranch
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- Soft coral crab (can you see it?)
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- Titan triggerfish
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- Ornate ghost pipefish free swimming
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- Ornate ghost pipefish blending with the coral
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- Flatworm dancing for us
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- Still dancing
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- Hawkfish
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- Anthias in the coral
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- Yellow leaf scorpion fish
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- Lionfish
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- Fiji anemonefish
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- Pygmy seahorse
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- Popcorn shrimp on their carpet anemone
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- Popcorn shrimp
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- Black saddled toby fish
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- Longnose hawkfish
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- Scorpion fish that isn’t hiding very well
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- Juvenile Clark’s anemone fish
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- Cleaner shrimp
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- Nudibranch
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- Three spot damselfish
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- Another leaf scorpion fish
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- Two-spined angelfish
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- Longnose butterflyfish
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- Surgeonfish
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- A more camouflaged scorpion fish
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- Butterflyfish
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- Close up of a lionfish
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- Another surgeonfish
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- Cool coral “fangs”
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- Sue checking out what’s coming as we head into Nigali Passage
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- Barracuda
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- More barracuda
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- Here come the sharks
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- Sharks
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- More sharks
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- Bill, the goliath grouper, cruises by
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- Still more sharks
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- And more
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- And more
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- Close up of Bill
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- Juvenile yellowtail coris and two fire dartfish
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- Cabbage coral
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- Great colors on The Great White Wall
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- Crinoid on a sea fan in The Great White Wall swim thru
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- Soft coral up close
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- Fiji anemonefish in an orange anemone
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- Fire dartfish
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- Ribbon eel
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- Fiji anemonefish in an orange anemone
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- White leaf scorpion fish
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- Nudibranch
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- Threespot angelfish
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- Cool light on a sea fan
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- Clown triggerfish
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- Coral goby
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- Flatworm
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- More soft coral up close
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- Octopus!
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- Who wouldn’t come out to play, no matter how long we waited
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- Sea fan
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- Spider crab
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- Nudibranch
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- Moorish idol (a.k.a. Gil)
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- Goby in his burrow
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- Can you find the crab?
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- Longnose filefish
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- White soft coral
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- Another ribbon eel
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- Flatworm
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- Giant clam
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- Cool coral
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- Nudibranch
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- Green leaf scorpion fish
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- Banded sea snake
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- Triple nudibranch
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- Coral
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- Nudibranch
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- Scorpion fish
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- Crinoid
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- Goby on whip coral
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- Whip coral shrimp
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- Thin ghost pipefish
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- Purple coral
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- Coral goby
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- Many-spotted sweetlips
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- Redtooth triggerfish
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- Jacks
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- Large spiny lobsters
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- Millions of fish
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- Longfin bannerfish
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- Entering the Cathedral
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- Great light through the sea fan
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- Light from the surface
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- Back out into the blue
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- The 180th meridian (a.k.a., International Date Line) on Taveuni
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- Heading back to the Fiji Siren
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- The fabulous crew of the Fiji Siren!
PMF Adventures 