New Caledonia Underwater Photography and virtual reality coral reefs
par Richard Chesher
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Underwater sphere images offer a whole new perspective for underwater scenic photography. After 40 years or more of close-up specimen shots and little glimpses of parts of a coral reef, we can now enjoy the feeling of being there, hovering over the astonishing crystal jungle of corals and turning around, amazed at the abundance and variety of life around us.
Ilot Ua is one of the lagoon islands within the world's largest coral reef lagoon, the World Heritage Site New Caledonia Lagoon.
In New Caledonia's southern lagoon each small tropical lagoon island is surrounded by a fringing reef. These fringing reefs are almost awash on top at low tide and then they drop straight down to 6 or even 10 metres. Pinnacles of coral often grow just off the fringing reef and I stopped on one of these pinnacles to take this underwater scenic panorama of the reef face.
Frederique dove down about half way to the bottom to give you a sense of the size of the reef face.
It must have been the breeding season for sardines - or perhaps they were anchovies - for great shoals of them flowed around us.
Ua Island is a small, uninhabited island in New Caledonia's southern lagoon. Except during holidays a...
Fishing in New Caledonia is pretty exciting. Here a Giant Trevally, Carynx ignobilis, prepares to bre...
Sometimes, during the summer months, New Caledonia's SE trades stop completely and it goes absolutely...
The sea birds of New Caledonia are part of one of the most fascinating avifauna on the planet. Of the...
Finding a great dive spot isn't easy. Even in the great south lagoon of New Caledonia where there are...
If you look carefuly, you'll see the New Caledonian emblematic highly venomous banded sea snake (Tr...
Ua Island is a small, uninhabited island in New Caledonia's southern lagoon. Except during holidays a...
Underwater photography has always been limited by poor visibility and the rapid loss of the red end o...
The Great Lagoon Regatta of New Caledonia takes place in May with local and International yachts comp...
Une Nation du Pacifique Sud, la plus proche de l'Australie et de la Nouvelle Zélande. Une chaîne de hautes montagnes, d'impressionnantes cascades et de nombreuses rivières avec une flore et une faune variée et souvent unique au monde - C'est le paradis de la randonnée pédestre ou équestre ainsi que de l'excursion en véhicule tout-terrain.
Le plus grand lagon du monde, peuplé d'une faune tropicale endémique particulièrement riche, avec des récifs et des populations de poissons rares et protégées. Des centaines d'épaves sous-marines, des îlots, de nombreuses plages de sable blanc.
La population calédonienne est issue d'un large brassage culturel : Mélanésiens, Européens, Polynésiens, Vietnamiens, Chinois, Japonais, et la langue et culture française. La Nouvelle-Calédonie est dotée de très bonnes infrastructures médicales et sociales.
Une infrastructure touristique qui offre un large éventail de types d'hébergement allant de l'hôtel 5 étoiles au camping aménagé en passant par l'accueil en milieu tribal, les chambres d'hôtes, les refuges et l'auberge de jeunesse.
