• Many varieties of hard corals form the foundation of this beautiful reef.

  [photo: Jon Fellows]

  

• A fairyland fan coral garden adorns a steep wall.

  [photo: Jon Fellows]

  

• A crinoid, an animal related to starfish, stands sentinel on a red fan coral.

  [photo: Jon Fellows]

  

• A large fluffy soft coral feeds in the currents that run along this reef wall.

  [photo: Jon Fellows]

  

• This hard table coral was over 6 feet in diameter.

  [photo: Jon Fellows]

  

• Judy inspects a large barrel sponge.

  [photo: Jon Fellows]

  

• Judy enters Leru Cut, a deep fissure in the Russell Islands.

  [photo: Jon Fellows]

  

• A school of jacks flash in the foreground, with a large school of barracuda behind.

  [photo: Jon Fellows]

  

• A Hawksbill turtle soars overhead on a night dive.

  [photo: Jon Fellows]

  

• A parrotfish sleeps in its cave at night.

  [photo: Jon Fellows]

  

• A two-foot long cuttlefish posed somewhat tremulously while several divers photographed it.

  [photo: Jon Fellows]

  

• A Lionfish ruffles past an elephant-ear sponge.

  [photo: Jon Fellows]