Hours in the lagoon: Sven > 60, Jacqueline ~2
A white-spotted puffer
A guineafowl puffer
A huge school of convict tangs roamed the lagoon and were seen most days
Plenty of stingrays in Mo'orea
Speckled butterflyfish
Ornate butterflyfish
Lemonpeel angelfish were very shy
Blue green chromis change colour with the angle of light reflecting off their scales
Guineafowl puffer (yellow form)
A saddled puffer
Sixbar wrasse were one of the most common and friendly fish in the lagoon
Jacqueline. This awkward, dog-paddling creature was rarely seen in the lagoon
Christmas tree worms have two spiral crowns used for breathing and feeding
If you get too close, the worms suddenly disappear entirely into their tubes
Christmas tree worms come in a large range of colours
Regal angelfish and emporor angelfish
Threespot wrasse
Threeband pennantfish
A cushion starfish
Another cushion starfish
Crown-of-thorns starfish
There were many green turtles in the lagoon
The turtles aren't shy and more or less ignore you
Racoon butterflyfish
Chinese trumpetfish at night (it was safe enough to snorkel solo in the lagoon with a torch)
Spot-fin porcupinefish at night
Lionfish only came out at night
A lionfish (The light-reflecting particles looked like stars in the night sky)
Some sort of lobster (only seen at night)
Threespot dascyllus and their anemone home
Brown spotted sandperch
Black-tip reef sharks were very common, but quite shy. Chasing them was good exercise
Yellowtail dascyllus, humbug dacylus and baby chromis
Moorish idols (believed by the Moors of North Africa to bring happiness)
The scribbled rabbitfish has beautiful markings
A hawksbill turtle, rudely awakened
Yellowtail dascyllus
