The underwater world in la Reunion: snorkelling in the Indian ocean, part 3

 

As promised finally some videos from the long snorkeling hours in the warm water of the Indian ocean. Next to the colourful trigger fishes and the quick butterfly fishes I had the honour to swim with a huge family of squids (over 20) and one let me (very kindly) film him/her from very close! Doenjoy the video and those fantastic colours. The squids are extremely incredible to watch in therei element (water) as they move with their wings and change colours almost all the time!

The second video shows the huge variety of different fishes in the bay of St Leu after one local crushed a sea urchin and let the passing by fishes have a feast:



And some more pictures from the underwater inhabitants and the snorkeling tourists:-)

The underwater world in la Reunion: snorkeling in the Indian ocean, part 2

 

...some more great snorkelling experience the last two days in the lagoon of St Leu...I was so lucky to swim with two squids, such amazing creatures, I have also a lovely video, which I would upload a bit later...

The underwater world in la Reunion: snorkeling in the Indian ocean

 

Today some pleasant snorkeling in not even 2 meters water, on the beach of St-Leu.
The water warm as it should be (may be 27 degrees:-) and simply amazing colours and abundance of fishes...

 
As you can see there is a lot of dead coral (all the white looking pieces like small stones). For some years a protected area has been created on the west coast of the island with three different access rights: the strongest protection does not allow any activities in it...However unfortunately the rules are not always followed by the people.

 
The scene below pictures the fishes eating a sea urchin crushed in pieces by one snorkler.

Underwater in Reunion, diving in St Leu/ la vie sous-marine en Reunion

 

Today I would like to share with you some underwater impressions from our two dives in St Leu (dive sites: "Les Arches" and "Les Kioskques")...Amazing colours are to be sighted and a lot of corals (fortunately in better shape than the corals in the Maldives), but still almost 40% is dead. Colourful fishes, curious shrimps, crabes and anemones, nudibranches hiding, corals in different shapes and colours are all around!
Enjoy the pictures taken by Nico!