{"id":143,"date":"2008-02-13T20:49:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T01:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/2008\/02\/13\/namena-reserve-fiji\/"},"modified":"2018-07-14T22:35:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T03:35:21","slug":"namena-reserve-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/2008\/02\/13\/namena-reserve-fiji\/","title":{"rendered":"Namena Reserve, Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we gathered on the dive deck for yet another beautiful morning sunrise and dive briefing. Our first dive today would be on a site called \u2018Kansas&#8217;, which is a shallow bommie or pinnacle that sits in the channel of the North Save-a-Tack Passage. This site gets its nickname for the prolific coating of a species of leather coral that resembles a wheat field swaying in the wind. \u2018Kansas&#8217; is frequently current-swept and today was no different; the current was running at about 2 knots which made it difficult to work our way around the entire site. The soft-coral growth covering the sides of this pinnacle was truly spectacular! This site is also host to a feature known as the &#8220;Window of Dreams&#8221;, which is a large opening clustered with soft corals, bubble coral, sea fans and various types of whip coral.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/080212_img_004638.jpg\" alt=\"The Window of Dreams\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Julie\u00a0in the &#8220;Window of Dreams&#8221; &#8211; Namena, Fiji<\/small><\/p>\n<p>As for the marine life, well let&#8217;s just say that there&#8217;s no shortage of it here in Fiji. It&#8217;s almost like diving in a giant salt water aquarium. This site was absolutely covered with a variety colorful reef fish including Coronet Fish, Clown Triggers, Spotted Groupers, Pipe Fish and tons of Anemones.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/080212_img_004640.jpg\" alt=\"The Window of Dreams - w\/ Julie in background\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Here is another picture of Julie in the &#8220;Window of Dreams&#8221;<\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/080212_img_004645.jpg\" alt=\"080212_img_004645.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/080212_img_004651.jpg\" alt=\"080212_img_004651.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/080212_img_004661.jpg\" alt=\"080212_img_004661.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/080212_img_004662.jpg\" alt=\"080212_img_004662.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Foceanimagery.com%2Fjournal%2F2008%2F02%2F13%2Fnamena-reserve-fiji%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=dark\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 0px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we gathered on the dive deck for yet another beautiful morning sunrise and dive briefing. Our first dive today would be on a site called \u2018Kansas&#8217;, which is a shallow bommie or pinnacle that sits in the channel of the North Save-a-Tack Passage. This site gets its nickname for the prolific coating of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}