| I pick up a piece of coral with delicate branches, the Acropora or staghorn coral. |
| It is nonetheless a beautiful shallow reef with huge areas of elk and staghorn coral sheltering shoals of grunt, snapper and goatfish. |
| This is a sub-variety of the staghorn Endive, and comparatively of recent introduction. |
| In between the two islands, black tip sharks were sighted near a healthy patch of staghorn corals. |
| Fields of staghorn coral are parted only for bushels of anemone and host clownfish. |
| The average depth here is 16m, where numerous large, scattered boulders are covered with a reasonable presence of elk and staghorn corals. |
