The mandarin fish are so amazing and beautiful I never tire of photographing them. Here are some of the latest photos. This is a male with the dorsal fin extended. The mandarins start to emerge from the coral rubble just at dusk and do their courtship dance well into the night.
Merry Christmas from Palau.
Sooke in the small harbor on Anguar Island.
Crashed WWII Navy Hellcat Fighter remains left in the aircraft cemetary.
Machine gun turret wreckage from a US Army Air Force bomber.
View from Bloody Nose Ridge the scene of intense fighting during the invasion of Peleliu Island by US Marines and the US Army during WWII.
US Sherman tank destroyed by a improvised 200 pound mine.
Japanese tank probably the last remaining one as all the rest were removed by a scrap iron dealer in 1996.
