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Green Turtle resting on foliose coral Turtles are unimaginably one of my favorite subjects to watch and photograph underwater. This green turtle was resting comfortably on a bed of foliose plate coral and did not mind posing to have its picture taken. I simply love the way the true colours of the turtle have come out and the way it blends together with the surrounding orange and purple soft corals. The green turtle is recognized globally as an endangered species, but sadly its population is on the fast decline in Kenya, mostly due to pollution by plastics in our waters and by drift net fishing, where the turtles accidentally get caught and drown as they cannot come up to the surface to breath air.

A white eyed moray eel in Kenya The White Eyed Moray Eel is also sometimes referred to as the Greyface Moray Eel. They can usually be found on the sea bed aka the benthic zone, where they live in crevices between hard and soft corals during the day and come out at night to feed. Their diet consists mostly of small fish and invertebrates such as cuttlefish and octopus. As i was drift diving along the reef, this little white eyed moray had its head protruding from its crevice with its head slowly rocking back and forth to the current. I found the colours and the angle interesting so i went ahead and clicked the photo.