Changi at sunrise

It was a rare low tide during daylight at Changi, and for a change, we arrived at sunrise. To the noisy calls of kingfishers, koels and all kinds of other birds just waking up. A little tern flitted constantly nearby and daintily picked a small fish out of the receeding tide! Too fast for me to shoot.

November kept me company for this last trip for the June low tides. Rushing by even though she just came home from a long LONG trip. It was nice catching up and sharing this relaxing slow stroll on Changi with her. Thanks November!

My all-time favourite snail is the Conch snail. With its endearing cartoon eyes on stalks, peering tenuously as it nervously sticks out its pointy foot. There were plenty of these lively snails today on Changi.

Conch snails don't creep along on a large broad foot like other snails. They have a knife-like structure at the end of a long muscular foot. They use this to pole-vault along the surface! Many have broad flattened extensions on their shells that keep the shell from flipping over as they perform these acrobatic moves. Because they move so quickly (for a snail), Conch snails have large eyes on stalks. I'm not really sure what kind of conch snail the above one is. Possibly a young Gong-gong (Strombus canius) which hasn't yet developed a thick shell with the characteristic broad extension.

The Olive snail (Family Olividae) was spotted AGAIN today! Burrowing happily in a wide sandy patch thick with Button snails.

So it appears the Olive snails are not really that uncommon, not on Changi anyway. Wow!

Among the Button snails was this tiny skeleton of a sea urchin.

Two weeks ago, there were lots of white sea urchins all over Changi. This week, none. Although there are still lots on Pulau Sekudu (just across from Changi) when we visited a few days ago. Another puzzle to ponder.

In the lush seagrass meadows, there was the beginning of a bloom of sea lettuce, looking like shredded green cellophane paper all over the shore. Among them, tiny carpet sea anemones were everywhere. Most hardly bigger than a seagrass blade! In shades of green, blue and purple. We took care to step only on bare sand.

There were also some slightly larger sea anemones here and there. About the size of saucers. In the past, there were larger sea anemones, homes to cute spotted anemone shrimps. But we haven't seen large carpet anemones for some time on Changi.

There was talk among the shore guides a while back, that some people were seen harvesting these poor animals from our shores. Another reason for us to keep up our regular visits to monitor the situation.

Too many shores to cover, too few low tides....

Sentosa Seagrass Transect recce

This morning, Siti, Shoop, Peter and I had a look-see at Sentosa in preparation for the Sentosa Seagrass Transect next month.

Sentosa has the clearest water of our reefs! It's crystal even with waves crashing.

And it's reefs are crowded with hard and soft corals in all colours of the rainbow.

They come in various shapes from flat plates, to folded flower-like shapes...

And various textures and patterns...

This 'fingered' pink soft coral I've dubbed 'surgical-glove leathery coral' which Shoop thought was quite gross. While the bright blue smooth and slippery animal is probably a sponge.

There were LOTS of these slipper hard corals! We saw at least 10 large ones.

These hard corals lie unattached to the bottom, unlike the other kinds hard corals more commonly seen on a reef. The one above is sometimes called the Tongue slipper coral (Herpolitha sp.). They may sometimes form T-, Y- or even X-shapes; mainly due to regeneration after damage.

This one is sometimes called the Mole slipper coral (Polyphyllia talpina) because its short tentacles give it a furry appearance.

We startled several 'balls' of these small Lined eeltail catfishes (Plotosus lineatus). These catfishes generally swim about in a ball when they are young. The low tide must have disrupted a large ball of them, as there were scattered groups of these fishes, all about the same size. Hopefully, they will regroup when the tide comes back in.

And a school of many very nervous Cresent perch (Terapon jarbua). I've not seen such a large number together before!

Sentosa is the one place where you can be almost certain of encountering this monster worm. The Giant reef worm can grow to 1.5 metres long. It has a nice name though... Eunice is its scientific name.

Sentosa has lots of long Tape seagrasses (Enhalus acoroides), and some of them were fruiting! We also saw a female and male flower, but they were not in 'full bloom' so to speak.

While I slacked off, Siti was hard at work measuring up the transect site.

And Peter explains the Long black sea cucumber (Holothuria leucospilota) to Shoop; a tricky thing to do without being rude.

On the way back, another visitor on the shore pointed out this pair of Coastal horseshoe crabs (Tachypleus gigas) excitedly and assured us they were rare. Fortunately, this is not quite true. Yes, they are probably not as common as they used to be, but we still encounter them regularly on all our shores.

Our shores are still very much alive with amazing surprises if we only take the time to explore and learn more about them.

Mucking about at Kranji

Solo this morning, so I thought I'd check out the Kranji mudflats.

People generally associate mangroves with mud, muck and mosquitoes. While that's true, there are also some unexpected marvellous creatures there. Sea anemones, for example. This particular one we've only seen in or near mangroves.

Elsewhere, the trees might be full of spiders or snakes. But in our mangroves, they're full of crabs!

These agile creatures have pointy toes to cling onto branches. At night, they clamber happily about among the branches and leaves.

This particular one is a Mama crab with eggs held under her tummy with a broad belly flap. See the black mass with small dots?

At night it's also easier to sneak up to shoot these agile flyers. The bright red dragonfly was fast asleep and didn't even blink an eye. But the moth with wings like a Stealth bomber was a little more wary.

The mud was teeming with worms, large and small. While many people might consider them icky, worms are among the important elements of the mangrove's food web. Anyway, some as quite pretty, like the irridescent bristle worm on the left, which was swimming! While the very VERY long pink worm on the right is a ribbon worm. Ribbon worms are unsegmented and hunt small creatures.

The Horseshoe crab is not actually a true crab and is more closely related to spiders. But these fascinating creatures are still regularly seen in our mangroves. The smaller male is often seen clinging to the back of the larger female. At low tide, they usually bury themselves in the mud. I saw several such pairs. There were also lots of tiny horseshoe crabs crawling about in the small streams created by the outgoing tide.

On one tree trunk there seemed to be a sea slater party going on. There were lots of them gathered about. I wondered what was going on and then spotted this pair. Hmm, looks like they're making new sea slaters! Sea slaters are not cockroaches and not even insects. (See, they have more than 6 legs). They are crustaceans like crabs and prawns.

Wow! I was really looking forward to seeing a crocodile. Or some other scary predator like the mangrove pit viper.

Alas, the only sign of a predator that I saw was the usual sad one.

This particular predator is cowardly. Laying traps that cause cruel, slow death to all kinds of lifeforms on the mudflats.

And the predator doesn't even eat everything that is caught. 90% of what is caught is usually thrown away.

Fantasy Lost?

Chay Hoon and I were back at East Coast Park early this morning to get a closer look at the sea fans and the little Ovulid snails that live on them.

We went to the bigger lagoon where bigger sea fans were seen. There were lots of little ovulids!

These tiny snail cover their shells with a part of their body (called the mantle) that has colours, patterns that resemble the sea fan. There are even little white projections from the mantle that look like the sea fan's white polyps. Each sea fan had at least one if not more of these little snails.

What was disturbing though, was that we also saw a lot of sea fans reduced to wiry skeletons. Some like the one below and a few others, had little bits of living tissues with white polyps at the tips. Others were completely gone!

We worried about the other lagoon where lots of little sea fans were seen and rushed off there as the tide started coming in.

More 'dead' sea fans! There were a few live ones, but most of those we saw were reduced to wiry branches. This was most troubling.

Ovulids DO eat the sea fans that they live on. But did the ovulids eat up all the sea fans? Are the sea fans now permanently dead? If it wasn't the ovulids, what did this to the sea fans?

We really don't know.

We hope to visit again in two weeks' time when the tides allow and see if there is a recovery.

BB specials

Beting Bronok (affectionately called BB), is a special reef that is rarely visited. It is only exposed at very low tides and remains submerged most of the time. There, we often encounter things we seldom see on our other shores.

We landed on BB in a steady drizzle. Fortunately, the boatman landed us on a nice firm portion of the shore, and we didn't have to swim to shore like the last time. This was quite impressive given that it was 3am and totally dark.

The water quality has much improved and was generally clear. Despite the constant drizzle there were plenty of special finds (marine creatures generally don't enjoy drizzles either and hide from freshwater).

While soft corals of the usual pink to purple varieties are everywhere, these ball-shaped soft corals are seldom seen on our other shores. On BB, they dot the shores like lost tennis balls. Though some have grown much larger!

All kinds of tiny animals from small white cowries to little crabs live in these soft corals. But they were obviously hiding from the rain this morning.

This beautiful Cabbage coral (Trachyphyllia geoffreyii) is actually a single large polyp the produces a convulted, fluted skeleton. It's usually a lovely flourescent blue-green, but the rain has made it grumpy and dull. BB is the only place where we see it regularly.

BB is the only place where die-die-sure-can see feather stars. These relatives of sea stars are usually only seen by divers. But BB is littered with these small delicate animals in shades of blue and black.

The multi-coloured Sea apple sea cucumber (Pseudocolochirus violaceus) is not an apple or a vegetable! It's an animal related to sea stars and sea urchin. Often bright red with touches of violet and bright yellow feet; its colours advertising its distasteful nature. Several were seen BB today, but they are rarely encountered elsewhere. This particular one was obviously not enjoying the freshwater bath. Underwater, it extends its delicate feeding tentacles like a colourful flower. Elsewhere on BB, there were a variety of the orange sea cucumbers, purple ones and a Sandfish sea cucumber that we often see elsewhere.

Strange cowries are also regularly spotted on BB. The golden-black one is the Onyx cowrie (Cypraea onyx) often seen on some of our other undisturbed shores. The pink one we really have no idea what it is!

The Blue dragon (Pteraeolidia ianthinia) is seasonally common on BB, and sometimes also seen on our other shores. They are also regularly seen by divers on our reefs. There were lots of them crawling all over BB, like little animated electric blue hairy rugs. Of course various other nudibranchs were seen as well. A strange fugly one and a very large one that looks just like a piece of dead coral.

BB is the only place we regularly see the magnificent Bailer shell snail (Melo melo). Listed among the threatened animals of Singapore, this large snail (about 25cm long) has a handsomely striped body. It is a burrower and hunts buried prey such as other burrowing snails. Sadly, it is often harvested for food and its shell made into silly things like ashtrays.

BB is also home to an array of sea fans, big red sea stars, multi-coloured sponges and strange sea anemones.

It was a short tide, and a very soggy bunch ended the day on the shore even before the sun rose. We're quite glad that BB is still very much alive and well on the way to recovery from the effects of nearby reclamation.

Cowries Galore!

There were ominous flashes in the sky as we were about to depart for Pulau Sekudu at 1am. The NEA rain map was quickly consulted. It showed huge red spots in the South that looked like they were heading towards Ubin. With much discussion about the South-West moonsoon, and how rain should deposit over the land mass and thus be depleted by the time clouds got to the East, we made our way to Changi. Through pouring rain. Not good.

But the sky was clear over Changi and we headed determinedly for our favourite shore.

As always, Sekudu seldom disappoints. It was crawling with cowries! We've never seen so many of these delightful snails before.

More familiar to most people as dead shells with the distinctive 'teeth' at the opening, these animals when alive are far more fascinating than their shells alone. A living cowrie envelopes its shell with a part of its body called the mantle. The mantle prevents algae and encrusting animals from settling on the shell. The mantle also continously lays down new shiny shell material. This is why cowrie shells are so shiny and pretty. So much so that they were used as currency in some island communities in the past. The cowries above are commonly seen on most of our shores.

The Miliaris cowrie (Cypraea miliaris) is less commonly seen. It is usually seen in pairs and indeed, several were seen close to one another. The pretty spotted shell is usually covered with a mantle that has fleshy projections. This camouflages the snail very well indeed!

The fabulous Onyx cowrie (Cypraea onyx) is also seldom seen except at such undisturbed shores as Pulau Sekudu. It has a golden brown shell with a handsome black-and-white mantle with tiny projections.

Both the Miliaris and Onyx cowries are listed among Singapore's threatened animals. Half of the cowrie species of Singapore have be wiped out due to habitat loss.

Of course, with Chay Hoon, Ron and HP around, there are bound to be lots of slugs and nudibranchs to be found. And usually TINY ones. Sigh.

Fortunately, today, the nudibranch they found were less of a strain to back and eye.

The very cute Cerberilla nudibranch (Cerberilla sp.) has lots of projections on its back. These contain special sacs that store the stinging cells of its sea anemone prey. The stinging cells remain undischarged and now protect the nudibranch instead!

Indeed, when alarmed, the little animal turns itself into a ball of stinging tentacles! The nudibranch is a burrower (as we discovered).

It seemed also the season for Jorunna nudibranchs (Jorunna funebris). These delightful polka-dotted nudibranchs are sometimes seen on our shores, and particularly common on Sekudu. It is believed that they eat blue sponges. That may indeed be so, as this nudibranch looks like it just finished laying its rosette of eggs next to the blue sponge (the white blob on the left of the sponge).

This pair of nudibranchs looked like they were about to do so something about laying eggs before they got left high and dry as the tide went out.

The mess of nudis on the left looks like another pair that probably were further along into making new nudibranchs before they got stranded. When in the water, the nudibranch looks a lot prettier, with a fluffy set of gills on its back, and black tipped rhinophores at the head.

I saw this strange blue nudibranch. I still don't know what it is. It's the first time I've seen something like it.

There's so much we have yet to discover about our shores!

Of course, there were lots of other sightings. We were joined by some adventurous folks: Tiong Chin, Alan, Evelyn, Albert and friends. Who came despite the early hour and forbidding weather on the mainland. They were excitedly talking non-stop since we landed, exclamations of findings ringing throughout the night. Alas, the tide was short today and we had to leave even before the sun rose.

More 'Fan'-tastic East Coast finds!

Another day solo and I nipped by the East Coast again to catch the zero tide at 6am before going for the Labrador relocation exercise scheduled at 8am this morning.

And the first lagoon I went to was very much alive!

Again, with sea fans! Much larger ones, this time embedded in the sand.

In all colours of the rainbow!

They were mostly still submerged, and water quality much better. You can see the tiny white polyps still expanded out of their colourful skeletons.

These sea fans also had small animals living on them. But I'm really bad at spotting tiny things in the field. I didn't see them until I enlarged the photos when I got home.

In this very badly taken photo, there were THREE ovulid snails!

Can you see them? I've circled them in yellow.

There were fewer of those tiny brittle stars clinging to the sea fan branches.
But there were some large brittle stars happily roaming on the sand.

The sand flats in this shallow lagoon were very much ALIVE!

When you see trails like this, be warned! Something is up to no good. Evil is afoot (which is quite accurate, as it is moving on one very LARGE foot).

The big blob on the lower left which left a wide trail is a hunting moon snail. This burrowing predatory snail has a very large foot. It bulldozes beneath the sand seeking buried prey. The luckless prey is then enveloped in its huge foot and eaten alive!

This particular moon snail is hunting tiny button snails, that also lie buried in the sand. Needless to say, button snails don't particularly want to be eaten. So they frantically leap out of the way, leaving the smaller trails in the sand.

There were several of these plain moon snails, ferociously ploughing about for a titbit. And the tiny button snails were just as plentiful. No two of these snails have shells that are exactly alike!

Also seen prowling the sand was this Tiger moon snail with a spotted shell. It is considered less common. Indeed, I don't see this kind very often.

Another wonderful surprise were sand dollars! The sand was teeming with them.

I didn't have much time at this lagoon, so I'm sure there's more out there that I totally missed. Next time, hopefully will be accompanied by our highly accomplished Hunter Seekers with Bionic Eyes to spot all the good stuff.

Alas, like the other parts of the East Coast, this lagoon too had a fair amount of litter.

There were plastic bags aplenty. And hopefully, the poor snorkeller saw something of the marine life in the lagoon before this mask was lost.

East Coast 'Fan'-tasy

Today I was solo. And thought I should check out the East Coast.

It was recently said that dead pufferfishes and stargazers were being washed ashore there. They must have come from somewhere. And since we've seen living stargazers at Changi, was it possible there was a similar habitat on the East Coast?

I must confess we never devoted a super low tide to the East Coast. Such low tides are rare and are usually spent on other 'die-die-sure-nice' shores.

I walked quite a length of the East Coast shore this morning.

At first, the shores were pristine, white and sandy. Just the way they were built to be. So people could pretend they are in Hawaii, and build sand castles and play volleyball. No nasty mud or annoying rocks to mess up a proper beach outing.

There wasn't much marine life. I disturbed a small quarrel of hermit crabs at a bit of a sand spit near a freshwater outfall. And several small ghost crabs on the steeply sloping shores. They were paler than the ones we usually see at the Southern Islands, and didn't have 'horns' on their eyeballs. Possibly juveniles?

And a poor seapen that got washed up. It still had its passenger porcelain crab, and a brittle star too.

While the sandy shores were mostly bare, at jetties, pillars or some other structure in the water, there would be an explosion of colourful hydroids and other animals.

Perhaps the animals just need some place to cling to and grow on? If there were more such structures, would there be more marine life on the east coast?

The swimming lagoons I walked today were very steeply sloping and the sand very loose and coarse. Even the rock bunds at these lagoons didn't have much of the little crabs and snails that we can see, for example, at the Southern Islands.

After several of these desolate lagoons, I reached a little shallow lagoon filled with small rocks and stones.

It was teeming with sea fans!

From short single strands only 2cm tall, to long branching ones 20cm tall. Like colourful grasses, they sprouted among the small rocks and stones on the shore.

Red, pink, maroon, purple, white and even lemon yellow. It was almost impossible to walk the shore without crushing them, so I stayed off the rocks.

Like a little underwater forest, these sea fans provide homes to a whole variety of tiny creatures...

Tiny brittle stars clasped the sea fan branches tightly with their bristley arms. Even when the sea fan is out of water (photo on left). Submerged in water (photo on right), the tiny white polyps of the sea fan emerge from the bright red common skeleton. The tiny brittle stars are still there, clinging to the branch.

There were several of these white things wound around the sea fans (photo on left). I'm not sure what they are. Sea fans are also homes to a specialised kind of snail called ovulids that not only live on the sea fan but also eat it! Ovulids are often the same colour and even texture as the sea fan. I'm sure I missed seeing a whole bunch of them, but this red one on an orange sea fan was quite obvious (photo on right).

If the rest of the wildfilms crew were with me, with their bionic eyes tuned to microscopic creatures that defy photography, I'm sure we would have found lots more animals on the sea fans.

Little hermit crabs also clung onto the branches, while among branches in the water were tiny tranparent shrimp.

This lagoon was clearly much more alive. The sound of snapping shrimps were everywhere (but I couldn't find one to shoot). There was a Miliaris cowrie, handsomely spotted. These usually come in a pair, but I couldn't find the other one. There were also a few colourful Thorny sea cucumbers that are often seen on Chek Jawa and Changi.

And a very large specimen of the Flowery soft coral! It appears limp out of water, but fluffs up into a pink bush when submerged.

The shore was very much alive. But sadly, also one of the most badly littered shores I've been to in a while. Plastic bags, strings, used food wrappers were entwined with the sea fans and other marine life on the shore. There was even a huge signboard floating on the water threatening to flatten all the sea fans. It's amazing the sea fans are still there despite this daily onslaught.

I usually only see this kind of situation in the back mangroves where litter accumulates over years.

Does most of this litter come from East Coast beach users? Yet more that we need to find out about our shores. And more that to we can share with others so that we all can do our part for our marine life.

Changi: stars, dollars and super snails

The crew suddenly expanded by 100% this morning. YC turned up unexpectedly yesterday at 11pm, having just returned from the Himalayas (you have to ask him about the trip). And also sprung the trip on his old army buddy Clarence.

This morning Changi, as always, was astounding. It reminds us so much of Chek Jawa.

Sand sea stars were bristling a plenty, zipping along speedily on their pointed toes. I still haven't figured out whether these two kinds of stars we commonly encounter are the same species.

Star relatives were also everywhere. The white sea urchins were particularly plentiful and studded the seagrass like prickly golf balls. We also saw a very large keyhole sand dollar, with its intriguing slotted body (the function of which no one really knows). This sand dollar is rarely seen on Chek Jawa.

But today seems to be Snail Day.

Even the clams were pretty, like this one with a smooth shell and delicate patterns. And nestled among the red-purple seaweeds were these sausage shaped egg cases which probably were laid by a mama octopus.

Clams and octopuses belong to the same group--Molluscs--as snails do.

And what amazing snails there were!

We saw not one but TWO magnificent Noble volutes. So appropriately named for the gorgeous shell and handsome body. It's a pity these snails are often taken for their shells. I think the shell looks much better on the snail than on someone's dusty shelf.

This was initially thought, with terpidation, to be a Cone snail. Many Cone snails can inject toxins fatal to humans. It's good to be careful when handling snails, and to know a little bit about our own wild snails.

But it turned out to be an Olive snail, which is quite harmless to humans. But not quite so for other animals on the beach! As the Olive snail proceeded to bulldoze into the sand, tiny Button shells buried beneath started to frantically wriggle out of the way. Chay Hoon's steady hand got great footage of the action.

But of course wildfilms' favourite mollusc are slugs. And for some reason, teeny tiny ones...why? I haven't the faintest.

As usual, my back and arm were challenged by this tiny Gymnodoris nudibranch, delicately spotted and edged in pale orange. It's hardly bigger than a Button snail (which, by the way, litters the entire shore by the thousands).

And in its pajamas, the fabulously striped Armina nudibranch which apparently feeds on Sea pencils (a kind of sea pen) that are very common on Changi's shores. It is a burrower and probably uses its blue shovel-like flap at the front end to slide into the sand.

Tomorrow, another low spring tide, another wild shore...

Marvellous May on our shores

I am posting photos late because I'm getting to old to process them on the same day. Apologies.

May was a fabulous month as we visited some shores we haven't seen for nearly half a year.

At Beting Bronok, an off shore reef near Tekong, we were pleasantly surprised that much of the marinelife are still there. Colourful sea fans, sponges and soft corals are still common on some parts of BB.

BB is also one of the few places where non-divers can easily see feather stars. This particular handsome black-and-white feather star was quite active. It obligingly crawled about with its long feathery arms for the filming. Other spectacular animals spotted included the nearly never-seen-elsewhere Bailer Shell snail, and all kinds of fishes which Dr Chua shot to death. We also encountered Luidia maculata, the special sea star, there again.

The water quality at BB has also improved slightly; from impossible-to-shoot-in to somewhat-impossible. But we didn't really get a chance to see all of the reef as the tide was not ideal and quickly turned.

And at Changi, MORE sea fans! (Yes, CHANGI!)

Last year, the sea fans seemed to have disappeared following the building of the Changi Boardwalk. But now these beautiful animals are right back where they were! In shades of red, orange and even a purple and white one.

Unfortunately, irresponsible fishing is an obvious danger to these delicate animals. This one was found high on the shore uprooted (roots circled in red) with a fishing line wound tightly around it.

On Changi, there were also ENORMOUS jellyfishes stranded on the shore, about 50cm in diameter!

At St. John's Island, while everyone was getting excited over the lobsters in the net, I was distracted by the amazing profusion of colourful corals and life on this tiny patch of reef.

The corallimorphs are tiny flat anemone-like animals. There are at least four different kinds on St. Johns and they carpet the coral rubble in all shades of the rainbow.

Pulau Sekudu is a wonderland of myriad creatures. We never fail to see something new there. But to me, it's just the jumble of candy-coloured creatures that attracts...

At Pulau Sekudu, I am especially careful about stingrays because I got stung there by one. Diligently only walking in clear shallow water, nevertheless, I was suddenly surrounded by countless rays! Help! They slid in from nowhere, settling about my feet. And then proceeded to bury themselves in the sand!!

It was a very nerve-wrecking combination tip-toe and shuffle before I got to dry land! Happily, unstung.

The same thing happened to Huaqin! And he's posted a clip of it on his Uncommon Beach blog

Next week, another series of low spring tides and no doubt, our shores will continue to astound us.

Labrador Relocation

It was early on a working day, yet 20 or so volunteers from all walks of life and all ages turned up yesterday at Labrador. They came in response to MPA's call for help in relocating marinelife that will be affected by impending work on the shores of Labrador.

The designated area is a zone about 50 metres wide.

The aim is to relocate out of this work zone, corals and other marinelife that can't move by themselves. Hard corals and rocks covered thickly with sponges, tiny anemones and other layers of living animals were carefully selected and tenderly placed in buckets.

A line was formed to minimise impact of trampling as buckets of corals and other 'living rocks' were passed along to their new locations outside the work zone.

Papa Jeff oversaw the other end of the line to ensure relocated animals were put in the correct zone, were placed the right way up and wedged firmly so they would not overturn in the waves.

Everyone had their hands full and lots was accomplished before the tide came quickly in.

There will be another series of relocation efforts during the low tides on 14 June 06, 15 June 06 and 16 June 06 at 8am-10am.

If you would like to join us, drop an email to Ria at hello@wildsingapore.com

More about Labrador
The shores of Labrador Nature Reserve has our last mainland reef, lush seagrass beds as well as fascinating natural rocky shores.

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