Kimbe Bay
West New Britain Province, Papua New GuineaMay-June, 1999
All photographs are, of course, protected by Copyright (© Shane Paterson, 1999).
Moorish idols on a reef's busy top
Clif Haugen above a deep pinnacle
Balloon corallimorphs
Coral in close-up
Large sea fan
Nudibranch — pustulose phyllidia
Varicose phyllidiid
Giant clam
Crown-of-thorns starfish
Crinoid on elephant-ear sponge
Giant moray
Red firefish
Ragged-fin firefish
Smallscale scorpionfish
Strawberry grouper
Bluespotted grouper
Bigeye trevally
Blackfin barracuda
Blackfin barracuda and bigeye trevally
Midnight snapper
Yellowmask angelfish
Lemon damselfish
Spinecheek anemonefish — female
Female and male (the smallerof the two) spinecheek anemonefish in bleached anemone
Male spinecheek anemonefish
Clark's anemonefish
Redbreasted Maori wrasse
Wire-coral goby
Striped blenny
Mandarinfish
Yellowfin surgeonfish
Clown triggerfish
Map pufferfish
Hawksbill turtle
View from from Mahonia na Dari Research and Conservation Centre at sunset
Sunset over the volcanoes of Willaumez Peninsula