Traditional meeting houses take advantage of the cooling breezes.
The great stone disks are up to 12 feet (3.6 meters) in diameter.
Meeting houses are beautifully decorated.
Sharks and other animals are skillfully painted and carved.
A highly realistic tern carving.
Permission is always needed to visit a meeting house or to cross someone's land.
Mangroves protect the shore and provide habitat for young fishes.
Another sea cucumber.
Dascyllus hovering near their coral.
Pipe fish were common in calm shallow waters.
Sea cucumbers abound around Micronesia.
A lizard fish waiting in ambush.
This <span class="fish">Checkerboard wrasse</span> <span class="species">Halichoeres hortulanus</span> waits for whatever is flushed out of the sand by divers watching the manta rays.
One of the manta rays that has made <a href="http://www.mantaray.com/">Yap Divers</a> famous.
Spanish Dancer eggs.