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Obviously, the waters immediately beneath and around a village’s small jetty do not contain the richest of Raja Ampat’s extraordinary reefs.
Inevitably, the boats which come to and go from Marandan Weser will have a negative impact, as will the villagers’ jetty-based recreational activities.
Even so, standing on the jetty’s deck, pointing my camera at the water below….
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At 8.45 am on 09 October, we climbed onto the jetty at Aduwey – a village on Misool Island.
You are looking at a tiny piece of soft coral – severed, probably accidentally.
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I took this post’s photo 8.07 am on 09 0ctober 2024, as we were preparing to head to the pictured shore – that of Misool Island, one of Raja Ampat’s four “main” islands.
The other 1500+ islands, islets and atolls are all much smaller; most are rainforest-clad.
The waters around them are currently “our” planet’s’ most species-rich; their clarity is oft-astonishing.
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The mostly-uninhabited islands of the Guraici Archipelago offer something rarely found in north easternmost Indonesia: “white” beaches.
At 9.36 am on 06 October 2024 my feet and those of the pictured, very petite hermit crab shared one such, on an also-tiny island.
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This post’s “stars” are named after terrestrial flowering plants, but sea anemones are carnivorous animals.
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