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China Town
Named for its pagoda like porite coral formations
that are covered with sulti-hued tube worms. If you feel like showing
your power just wave a hand and thousands will retract at your command.
An easy swim up a gully will get you to a bright red anemone, home
for clown fish family, nestled in a bed of green lettuce coral.
Dragging fins are a real menace for the lettuce that gets crunched
if care is not exercised. At 27 meters (88-ft) the growth continues
down and out as far as one can see. Continuing across a ridge with
schools of large surgeonfish and species. The return trip passes
several large bushes of dead man’s fingers and offers plenty
of tunnels and crevices to check for sleeping sharks, emperor angelfish
and cruising harlequin or clown triggerfish. In the late afternoon
scorpion fish can be seen in their full splendour.
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