Uepi Island, 2016

In September 2016 we travelled to the Solomon Islands and spent a week at the Uepi Island resort. Our objective was to stay in one place for the full week, and to do nothing but what we came for - to snorkel the coral reefs surrounding the island resort.

Uepi is a small island in the Solomon Islands archipelago, and the resort is dedicated to providing an exceptional experience for divers and snorkellers (we are in the latter group, with no intention of scuba diving).

Although it is small, with only about 10 huts for visitors, the facilities are just what one would want on an island getaway and the coral reef is literally at your front door! The snorkelling was excellent and, although the weather let us down a little, the trip was a remarkable success.

For the trip we upgraded one of our underwater cameras to a Nikon AW130, bringing on another learning experience, but improving the outcome of our underwater photography.

After some thought, we have left the photos in chronological order. It just seemed more sensible to us than sorting all of the green fish together, etc.

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1. En route to Uepi	2. Arrival at Seghe airport	3. Seghe airport	4..Arrving at Uepi	5..Uepi arrival jetty
6. Arriving at the "Main House"	7. Our cabin and beach at Uepi	8. Uepi dive shop and jetty	9. Bright fish in shallow water	10. Massed schools of fish
11. Green clam	12. Another clam at the arrival jetty	13. Regal Angelfish	14. Vagabond Butterflyfish	15. Moorish Idol
16. Pyramid Butterflyfish	17. Latticed Butterflyfish	18. Sergeant Major fishes	19. Blue Starfish	20. Small, bright blue reef fish
21. Another Blue Starfish	22. School of Silver Batfish	23. A School of Bigeyed Scad	24. Blue Banded Surgeonfish	25. Moorish Idols
26. Spot-tail Butterflyfish	27. Oval Butterflyfish and Spot-tail Butterflyfish	28. Squirrelfish near the Uepi arrival jatty	29. Unidentified reef fish	30. More Squirrelfish
31.Green Chromis fish	32. Green Chromis	33. Yellowmask Angelfish	34. Moorish Idol	35. Parrotfish
36. Sergeant Major fish	37. Square Tailed Coral Trout	38. Sergeant Major fish with Bigeyed Scad friends	39. The Day of the Mantas	40. Manta Ray
41. Two Mantas	42. Manta Ray	43. Yellowmask Angelfish and friends	44. Silver Batfish	45. Green Chromis
46. Pink Starfish	47. Oval Butterflyfish	48. Black Tipped Reef Shark	49. Black Tipped Reef Shark	50. Spotted Pufferfish
51. Sea Anemone	52. A last moment at Seghe

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