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Groups of green soft coral on a lagoon formed by the barrier reef of Adicora. Each photo shows a different patch of soft coral surrounded by seagrass. When covered by water the coral polyps have their tentacles exposed, but as it can be noted on the third picture, they "close" when the tides are so low there's no water over them. Groups of soft coral stop occurring when the seagrass meets the coral bed (Porites porites in this particular zone).
Shallow lagoon area with extensive meadows where tides don't grow higher than 50cm (approximately). On this part of the lagoon the hydrodynamic force of the waves is not strong. For the first picture and the last two, the tide was extremely low -it looked like walking over dry land- with very few 'spots' of clear water, whilst on the second picture the tide was a bit higher (No more than 15 cm) and the water was mostly dark due to bad weather conditions, although I did find a spot clear and steady enough to show the corals.
The second picture of this spotting was taken on March 7th and the rest on March 21st. Both this visits are for my graduate project where I study the conservation state of this reef. The pictures were taken between 8:00am and 10:00am, because at that time the tide was starting to rise and making it difficult to take a good shot.
Spotted on Mar 21, 2015
Submitted on Mar 24, 2015
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