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underwater Pacific

underwater caribbean

birds of the US & Bahamas

birds of the Caribbean

birds of Central America

birds of South America

butterflies/moths

travel photography

Map

Lightroom Albums

s/v Reach 2008-2018

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underwater Pacific

underwater caribbean

birds of the US & Bahamas

birds of the Caribbean

birds of Central America

birds of South America

butterflies/moths

travel photography

Map

Lightroom Albums

s/v Reach 2008-2018

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A short downwind hop to the next atoll... The timing to leave and enter the cuts worked out in our favor! 😬

#atollcut #screecher #sailcatamaran #dolphin460 #tuamotus

Fish portraits from the new anchorage 🐟😄

#fishportrait #reeffish #underwaterphotography #toau #tuamotus

Made a game attempt at New Orleans gumbo last night... traditional okra missing (nor filé), unfortuately.

I used chorizo (sub for andouille) and canned muscles (sub for shrimp). The the roux and the trinity made this still a great dish. Ser

Clear skies for last night's sunset 🌅

Fortunately we found some tonic soda so we can enjoy sundowner G&Ts just a while longer 🍹

#gnt #sundowner #sunset #boatlife #tuamotus

Reef scenes & cool fish on the stunning coral wall of the south cut in Fakarava 🪸🐠🦈

#reefscenes #coralwall #underwaterphotograghy #freediving #tuamotus

Had a great two days dropping in at slack tide at Fakarava's south cut ~ aka Wall of Sharks.

Lots of megafauna in the cut... including the kind that blows bubbles.😆 More shots to come from the reef-side. 🪸

#wallofsharks #blacktipreefshark #grayr

Mark was our dinghy-minder yesterday on a drift snorkel in the south cut, Fakarava, along a beautiful coral wall with divers below, schools of snapper, huge humphead wrasse, and of course, sharks 🦈

#freediving #snellswindow #underwaterphotography

Yesterday's visit to my friend the smooth fangblenny 😊 I've been visiting it almost every day and will miss it when we leave tomorrow.

#smoothfangblenny #supermacro #cmc1 #freediving #tuamotus

We're still hiding out from a blow so it's a perfect time to play around with new lenses in the shallows in our anchorage.

I'm really enjoying the Inon bugeye lens that allows close-focus wide-angle views. In this case, I put it on my backup TG4 si

Chinese take-out anyone?! I wish! 🥡

This sesame chicken was a bit more work (but not much) and TOTALLY worth it. More sauce for the toss next time... 😋

The broccoli score was my inspiration and it all came together from there 🥦

#sesamechicken

Laiza has welcomed crusiers to her place in Hirifa for dinners - or a buffet and maybe even a pig if the crowd gets bigger. Poisson cru has become my favorite. It’s been nice to eat out for a treat and a break from cooking!

In a quick jaunt t

Helpful Tip: Spray your telltails with McLube to keep them free-flying and waterproofed

#telltails #mclube #newsail #longstory #tuamotus

Definitely some nice walks at our current anchorage... birding along the way of course🏝️

Then all of a sudden today, the perpetually silty water cleared up, so I know what I’m doing this afternoon even though it’s only shallow bommies.

We had a visitor on Reach today. This beauty ~ a black noddy ~ stopped by for a preening session. #blacknoddy #eBird #birdphotography #sailcatamaran #tuamotus

These fish ~ a Napoleon wrasse and a blacksaddled coal grouper ~ were visiting a cleaning station at a small coral reef in the anchorage.

Each was about 2 feet long, likely reaching intermediate age and still growing. There was actually a line-up o

On calm days we've been able to explore the cut in Tahanea atoll underwater.

There are schools of beautiful bannerfish, butterflyfish and breams hanging out in the water column.

They were in the same location each time, so I was able to catch the