Tag: clipperton angelfish

Leaving a time capsule behind on Clipperton Island

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike
Post date 2007-04-22

By Nautilus Staff on April 22nd, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike

None of us are ever going to forget the 1/2 million booby birds (and their incredibly cute chicks) that we saw, the 5 million bright orange land crabs, the amazing number of moray eels and their bizarre behaviour, the thick “clouds” of black and big-eye jacks, heavy schools of black triggerfish and rainbow runners, the endemic iridescent blue Clipperton angelfish and the coconut groves, white sand beaches and beautiful setting.

Tags angelfish, booby birds, CLipperton, clipperton angelfish, Clipperton Atoll, giant manta rays, hammerhead sharks, jacks, land crabs, moray eels, rainbow runners, silky sharks, silvertip sharks, triggerfish, whale sharks, white tip reef shark

Our last day at Clipperton Island

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike
Post date 2007-04-20

By Nautilus Staff on April 20th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike

I literally laid on the white sand bottom at 175 feet watching 12 leather bass (yes, I counted them!) and a school of big eye jacks swarming around me, the bizarre free swimming fine spotted moray eels of Clipperton Island swimming around like fish everywhere I looked, beautiful brilliant blue juvenile endemic Clipperton angelfish darting around and the coral wall sloping up above me with the Nautilus Explorer outlined up above in the beautiful blue water.