This is our last fond farewell to Clipperton Island. Many thanks to Dr. Ernst Koschier for the beautiful/amazing/awesome pictures. Until next time Clipperton. =)
Read Morehttp://www.damninteresting.com/the-tyrant-clipperton-island/ – click on link to see website. THE TYRANT OF CLIPPERTON ISLAND ARTICLE #340 • WRITTEN BY MARISA BROOK Clipperton Island, with the freshwater lagoon visible in the center. For a tropical island, Clipperton doesn’t have very much going for it. The tiny, ring-shaped atoll lying 1,000 kilometres off the southwest coast of Mexico is […]
Read MoreApril 26th 2013 Yesterday was our last day on Clipperton Atoll. It was a once in a lifetime experience that will never be forgotten. We had the opportunity to go ashore which was quite the experience. The island is quite inhospitable but unique in it’s own way. The Booby birds were were in all stages […]
Read Morehttp://vimeo.com/43274768 It is an amazing privilege to be granted permission by the Republic of France to take our guests ashore at Clipperton Atoll – a true desert island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Hundreds of thousands of masked, brown, and red footed boobies litter the shores, with literally millions of bright orange land […]
Read Morepicture taken by Dirk Czerwek (sorry its small, it was sent from the boat and can only be sent my minimizing the size of picture.) I could hear the whales singing so loud that i could feel their singing bouncing on my chest. It felt like my whole body was trembling and vibrating […]
Read MoreNone 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.
Read MoreI 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.
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