Richard And Jo Demeester's photos with the keyword: Guam

Synaptid Sea Cucumber

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This wonderfully enchanting sea cucumber, Inarajan Natural Pools, was more than a metre long.

Synaptid Sea Cucumber

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We watched this wonderful creature for quite some time. Using its feathery tentacles, it shovelled sand in to its mouth, extending itself, growing longer and longer, eventually retracting to a shorter bunched up shape and starting again.

One of the Inarajan Natural Pools

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Such a beautiful place to swim.

Water Flowing In

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After the wave crashes on the rocks, the water begins its flow over the rocks, into the Inarajan Natural Pools.

Swimming, Inarajan Natural Pools

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Enjoying the wonderfully beautiful natural pools at Inarajan. Waves crash over the rocks and the water can't get back out to sea via the same path. The water flows through a series of scenic pools of varied depth before returning to the ocean a hundred metres or more further along the coast.

Spanish Bridge

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A reminder of early colonialism, western Guam.

Defensive Cannon

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Guam, and World War II. The island is defined in so many ways by what happened in just a few years in the 1940's.

Hand for Scale

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A regular, five armed Blue Starfish. Piti Bomb Holes.

Black Knobby Sea Cucumber

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There were loads of sea cucumbers at Piti Bomb Holes, but this was the only one we saw of this variety.

A Sea Star with Six Arms

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Sea stars have a great ability to regenerate lost limbs. But this ability also leads to occasional abnormalities. This blue sea star (common name, and I'm not joking, Blue Starfish, scientific name Linckia Laevigata) has an extra arm. Taken at Piti Bomb Holes, Guam.

Picasso Triggerfish, Gun Beach

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We saw heaps of these "80's" fish - too much blue eye shadow.

Snowflake Moray Eel

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A very shy thing. We watched him for about 10 minutes, and he certainly got an impression that he was quite long. We could watch his body sliding around through an opening, Unfortunately, he was way too aware of us to come out. Taken at Piti Bomb Holes, Guam.

Snorkelling, Gun Beach

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Gun Beach, near Tumon, Guam.