[Coral-List] feel good sighting

[Risk, Michael]

Hello Andrew.

Picture's fine, no worries. And it is nice to see so much coral still left (just a few km nw of Lameshur Bay).

But is that a colony of the fecal bacteria bioindicator Cliona delitrix I see, upper right?

....there is no good news.
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From: coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov [coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml..noaa.gov] on behalf of Andrew Pederson [andrew at reefheart.com]
Sent: June 26, 2015 1:13 PM
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Subject: [Coral-List] feel good sighting

An entire ridge at Mingo Cay (just north between St Thomas & St John, USVI)
blanketed in star coral polyps, must have been at least 20 yards in length
total... photo taken April 28 (sorry about the quality, bit of an unsteady
hand behind the lens) :
http://postimg.org/image/sgz4gh1sv/

Cheers,
Andrew in Seattle
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