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A family of ospreys (Pandion haliaetus melvillensis) live on Ilot Mato in the great south lagoon of New Caledonia. The island is one of many in New Caledonia's World Heritage Site and I think there is one family of ospreys on each one of these lovely little islands. They build their nests high in the trees, although on some of the islands where there are no high trees they resort to building their nests on driftwood or even on uplifted chunks of coral. I believe there are four ospreys living on Ilot Mato - but I'm not certain as they do move around alot and they all look pretty much alike to me. They do things together - I often see them on the beach or exposed tide flats foraging for fish, crabs and sea snakes and they will soar together on the thermals over the island. Strangely, when they fly off to hunt in the lagoon for fish they go alone. They sometimes call to each other with a shrill cry that carries a long way.
Ilot Mato is in the southern part of the largest coral reef lagoon in the world. It is part of the Ne...
Giant Trevally, Caranx ignobilis, are big, smart, curious fish. Freddy and I nick-named this one Pose...
There's this colony of clownfish that lives just on the crest of the fringing reef at Mato. Two speci...
The Leopard Shark, Stegostoma fasciatus, reportedly eats small fish and molluscs. Molluscs probably m...
Coral reefs are all about symbiosis - the art of living together. When we look at an underwater scene...
About 40 km southeast of Noumea Ilot Mato Anchorage marks the entrance into the vast southern coral r...
New Caledonia Anchorage Aerial PanoramaThis New Caledonia Anchorage sphere image was taken from a kit...
Massive corals, like this 6 meter sphere of Porites, grow between 5 to 10mm per year making this one ...
A photo story from the New Caledonia Lagoon, a World Heritage SitePhotographing creatures on a coral ...
A school of anchovies swarms together, forming a scintillating mass attacked from above and below in ...
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.