Yap
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Permission is always needed to visit a meeting house or to cross someone's land.

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Traditional meeting houses take advantage of the cooling breezes.

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The great stone disks are up to 12 feet (3.6 meters) in diameter.

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Meeting houses are beautifully decorated.

Shark - Bechiyal Cultural Center, Yap

Sharks and other animals are skillfully painted and carved.

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A highly realistic tern carving.

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Mangroves protect the shore and provide habitat for young fishes.

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Another sea cucumber.

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Dascyllus hovering near their coral.

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Pipe fish were common in calm shallow waters.

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Sea cucumbers abound around Micronesia.

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A lizard fish waiting in ambush.

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This Checkerboard wrasse Halichoeres hortulanus waits for whatever is flushed out of the sand by divers watching the manta rays.

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One of the manta rays that has made Yap Divers famous.

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Spanish Dancer eggs.