Elphinstone

Elphinstone Reef is the most famous and most colorful of the southern Red Sea reefs. Also called Sha'ab Abu Hamru, the N-S seamount lies about 30km north of Marsa Alam, rising almost to the surface.

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Its north and south plateaus and walls are covered with soft corals, and there are plenty of pelagics. It is close enough to shore to be reachable by day boats out of Marsa Alam. Because of the strong currents, this site is not diveable at night.

black coral and wall black coral soft corals and anthias Paul off the wall Paul off the wall anthias coral head on wall soft corals and wall wall

silky shark Blacktip shark, Carcharinus limbatus

male anthia Pseudanthias sp.

masked puffer Masked puffer, Arothron diadematus

Red Sea fairy basslet cf Pseudanthias sp.

marbled grouper Greasy grouper, Epinephelus tauvina

bigeye Common bigeye, Priacanthus hamrur

Charlotte photographing lionfish lion fish Common lionfish, Pterois volitans

lined butterflyfish Lined butterflyfish, Chaetodon lineolatus

free-swimming giant moray eel giant moray eel portraitGiant moray, Gymnothorax javanicus

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