419 Dive Log Australasia AUGUST 2026

NIght colours of the Unicorn fish

enormous underwater wilderness was waiting just around the next point. Divers often associate Fiji with forests of brilliantly colored Dendronephthya soft corals cascading down vertical walls. Those iconic images certainly exist elsewhere in the islands, but Astrolabe Reef offers something different.

Here, hard corals dominate. Massive table corals stretch outward like giant umbrellas. Delicate staghorn colonies form intricate cities for countless reef fish. Boulder corals, brain corals and lettuce corals blend into one another until the reef resembles a carefully landscaped underwater garden rather than

Coral Clam has red eye spots

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Dive Log Australasia #419 August’26

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