Boobies and Tropicbirds can be seen circling the cliffs as the plane lands.
The reefs, even in the main harbor, are gorgeous.
A thriving giant clam.
The beautiful Powderblue Surgeonfish Acanthurus leucostemon lives in the Indian Ocean and seas of Indonesia.
A Longnose Butterflyfish Forcipiger flavissimus searching the reef for food.
A large Titan Triggerfish Balistoides viridescens patrolled the reef.
Spotfin Lionfish Pterois antennata were common in the shallows.
A Common or Indian P. antennata or P. muricata.
A nudibranch.
A Halfspotted Hawkfish Paracirrhites hemistictus.
Snorkeling for noddies!
A founding Abbott's Booby Papasula abbotti.
Local forest.
All three frigatebird species were visible around the island.
A small puddle attracted frigatebirds, stilts, and a vagrant coot.
A frigatebird in flight.
A mature Coconut Crab.
The crab's have beautifully colored carpaces.
Coconut Crabs are pretty enormous.
A forest crab, probably one of the blue nippers.
Christmas Island has over twenty native land crabs, including millions of the famous red crabs.
Crabs continuously mulch leaf litter in the forest and along the sandy foreshore.
A green grasshopper.
A golden colored grasshopper.