Sentences with phrase «with staghorn corals»

We went to the sloping area covered with staghorn corals and table corals.

The coral garden starts right off the beach breaking the surface with a staghorn coral field and huge schools of fish.

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And the reefs where we snorkeled, their bright staghorns cracked and bleaching, lobotomized, with brain corals stacked like bowling balls among the palm trees...

Extensive thickets of staghorn corals at Carysfort Reef, approximately 6 nautical miles east of Key Largo, Fla., are gone today and replaced by a structure-less bottom littered with the decaying skeletons of staghorn coral.

In Explosion Reef, experience the staghorn coral, the «nursery» of this dive site that explodes with the dazzling colors of juvenile fish and marine life.

A fantastic coral dive with vast beds of staghorn and other varieties, and dotted with colourful giant clams.

Most of the dive sites are pristine coral reefs with colorful soft corals and crinoids, vast staghorn coral fields and huge table corals in the shallow parts, giant elephant ears in the deeper parts, giant sponge barrels along the slopes.

These hulking hard - coral castles are topped with staghorn, elkhorn and brain coral growth, and decorated in a colorful array of gorgonians and sponges.

These rock formations are covered with hard and soft corals with excellent shelter between staghorn thickets from predators and curious divers.

A favorite destination is Laughing Bird Caye National Park, which supports large stands of staghorn and elkhorn corals, along with thick growths of tunicates and anemones.

In open areas, tilefish float like ghostly apparitions, guarding the entrance to their hilly burrows piled high with broken pieces of staghorn coral.

Large areas of plate coral with fields of blue staghorn, schools of Batfish, Giant Maori wrasse, moray eels, and an abundant variety of tropical fish.

Information cards guide the snorkeller through gardens of lettuce, cauliflower, boulder and staghorn corals teeming with colourful clownfish and giant clams.

The coral gardens are alive with drifting anemone, regal staghorn, and flower - shaped hedges.

In the shallow water, particularly off the western beach, the coral cover is nearly solid, mostly staghorn, with only a few sandy patches.

Unusual ones are Devil's Claw and Vicky's Reef, with stingrays and sharks; and French Bay, with Elkhorn and staghorn coral.

With a gentle northern current all groups could fully enjoy what the site has to offer, especially the amazing concentration of smaller reef fish of all sorts of colors hovering on top of staghorn, elkhorn and other species of coral.

The Maori Wrasse Bommie dive site is in the north western corner of the reef, and includes broken sandy bottom with small bommies and boulders, plus a large extent of staghorn coral which seems to be a favourite haunt of the turtles.

The reef - flat features many small boulders of lesser star and brain corals, interspersed with clusters of staghorn corals, all covered in colourful reef - fish like chromis, wrasse, parrotfish and surgeonfish.

Staghorn Crest - At this dive site, you will find yourself beginning with a gentle descent along the drop - off, followed by a gradual diagonal descent along the wall, at the shallow end of which there is a garden of staghornStaghorn Crest - At this dive site, you will find yourself beginning with a gentle descent along the drop - off, followed by a gradual diagonal descent along the wall, at the shallow end of which there is a garden of staghornstaghorn corals.

There's elkhorn coral mixed with staghorn and brain coral and beautiful fish.