Some "pre" photos from my PNG trip

[allisonfinch]

I recently returned from a month on PNG diving the south shore of New Britain Island on the MV FeBrina. This is an area just starting to become known for some exceptional critters. I think it rivals Lembeh in weird stuff.

I have not worked on the thousands of RAW files, but poking through the poorer quality JPEGS attached to them, I saw a few I liked. They have not been photoshopped, so excuse the quality....

We started in Rabaul, where the Tavurvur volcano has been fiercely erupting. It made life a bit uncomfortabl for the four days we spent there. Such a beautiful area (as I remember it from previous trips) that has now been decimated.

Mt Tavurvur

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This is what's left of the pool at the Rabual swim club

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As we powered to the south shore, we were met with the usual villagers wanting to trade foodstuffs

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Some of the underwater characters

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White margined moray

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NEMO!!

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Dinner!

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Bombs in the bombay of a Mitsubishi float plane sunk in WWII

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Dang! I just realized that this should, probably, be in the trip report section. Anyone care to move it?

Anyway, hopefully no one will mind if I post some more as I find them....