Amedee Island New Caeidonia Sat Image
Amedee Island and lighthouse, our next stop
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This is the pier where we got in line to get on the famous glass bottom boat to see the fish on the reef. All these islands are closely regulated for side tours and only accept so many people a day to protest the islands and the habitat. As a result we did not get some of the side tours we wanted.
Capture Date: Nov 17, 2012 04:08 PM•Views: 147
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The Amédée lighthouse, or "Le Phare Amédée", is an iron lighthouse located on Amédée Island, 24 km away from Nouméa, New Caledonia. Build in France it was assembled in Noumea. Its light signals the entrance to the passage of Boulari, one of only three natural passages in the reef surrounding New Caledonia. On the other side of the world, the Roches-Douvres Light in the English Channel is the twin brother of the Amédée lighthouse. It is now a very popular tourist attraction.
Capture Date: Nov 17, 2012 04:10 PM•Views: 147
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Reef visible through the clear water
Capture Date: Nov 17, 2012 04:16 PM•Views: 148
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Reef just under water
Capture Date: Nov 17, 2012 04:17 PM•Views: 147
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Beach overlooked by lighthouse
Capture Date: Nov 17, 2012 04:21 PM•Views: 147
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Glass bottomed boat. There were a sharklike sucker bottomed fish that attached themselfs to the slick glass and hitched a ride with the boat for the food thrown overboard to the other fish to attract them.
Capture Date: Nov 17, 2012 04:32 PM•Views: 147
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The lighthouse protects the approach through the reef, which makes up the biggest lagoon in the world.
Capture Date: Nov 17, 2012 04:37 PM•Views: 148
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Better view of sucker belly fish--don't know proper name. Ran from 18 to 24 inches long.
Capture Date: Nov 17, 2012 04:40 PM•Views: 146
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It was very hard to see the fish through the glass bottom boat, it fact I don't think we saw any but the hitchhikers. But when we stopped, they showed up to eat the bread thrown overboard by the crew. The yellow crust of bread is in the upper right corner of the picture.
Capture Date: Nov 17, 2012 04:41 PM•Views: 147
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More fish swarming around the glass bottomed boat to get bread thrown off by the boat crew
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and more. Note how shallow the lagoon made by the reef is. We sailed all the way around the reef, and the island at the center and to do so, I think we went through the reef entrance and we were a mile or more from the island as we circled it.
Capture Date: Nov 17, 2012 04:41 PM•Views: 147
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