Unidentified Allied Cowrie on red soft coral. Kirsty Jane's Reef, Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. Nikon D300 camera with 105VR lens.
Photocomp March '09 - Open
This practical Wild Australia Guide "takes the reader underwater" - with colour photos and authoritative text - to identify each species and reveal the complex societies of these beautiful mammals that are so perfectly adapted to life in a buoyant, underwater world.
"I am hard pressed to think of anywhere on earth that has this combination of vibrant health, diversity and beauty."
- Prof Charles Veron, world's most widely published reef scientist, refering to the reefs of Kimbe Bay.
Papua New Guinea occupies half of the third largest island in the world and 160 other islands and 500 named cays...It is one of the few places left in the world where a diver can see macro critters, pelagics, and big stuff, as well as fantastic soft and hard corals.