Eastern Fields

Eastern Fields are real oceanic reef systems which lies a few 100 miles of southern Port Moresby and northern Coral Sea. Like any other oceanic reefs, the Eastern Fields appear to surge coming from the abyssal absolute depths. The outside walls of Eastern Fields plummet countless feet towards the seabed beneath. Eastern Fields are the relic of a few long forgotten volcanic islands which has gradually submerged back to the sea over the years.

Due to the clearness of the water, sunlight sifts to far deeper beneath than normal and the invariable outpouring of nutrient rich and fresh waters, the growth of corals is abundant, and the nutrient- loaded currents and the immaculate condition within the entire environment, the food chain is unchanged and spectacular. Huge amounts of fish billow all over the reef such as humbugs, fusiliers, anthias, and so forth in an exceedingly abundance of shapes and colors. Higher all the way up the food chain is to be found incredible schools of barracudas, bass, snapper, jacks and batfish spill throughout the corners of the reef in which the current is strongest. Far better still can be seen top predators – dogfin tuna, rainbow runners, and not surprisingly, sharks. At Eastern Fields quite a few varieties of shark really exist. Probably the majority is silvertips, white tips and grey reefs, yet it is quite normal to discover schooling hammerheads, or even the strange bronze whaler. Should you be fortunate enough, you could possibly view a tiger shark or perhaps an awesome hammerhead.

Diving within the Eastern Fields is most likely best referred to “gorilla diving”. It’s undoubtedly not for the weak hearted, nor for the newbie. The diving is performed through deep water, together with strong currents, and among critters with little regard for divers. Should you wish to be surrounded by a whirling school of barracuda or check out a number of grey reef sharks having fun with a feeding mania, in that case this is possibly the ideal destination ever to go.

Still Eastern Fields has a number of sophisticated astonishments as well. The fattest, biggest, and juiciest soft coral trees on earth; not really one of your cauliflower-sized numbers here – they are usually larger than a human being, not to mention in the most stunning pinks, blues, purples, yellows and reds. Look among such deeply hued fronds so you can discover coral shrimps and crabs, nudibranchs, and petite shells. At the barn door, you will see proportions of seafans, around the downstream area of which schools of glassfish situates from the capturing currents. Within the seafans do usually observed gobies resemble wonderfully the color of their habitation; cowries that actually have small bunchy growths that complement the feeding polyps with the sea fan. And among the multitude and multi-hued feather stars that rest on each coral head, you could possibly even locate incredible rhinopias.