In a message dated 9/8/2004 1:22:00 PM Central Standard Time,
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The marine life is DIFFERENT!  That's the best way to describe
it.  Nothing big.  But a great variety of wrasses and butterflyfish
in small packages, many look different from those in Polynesia
or elsewhere in the Pacific.   I presume those are the ones
endemic to Easter Island.

One unmistable one was something shaped and colored like a
Spanish hogfish of the Caribbean, but with a varied markings like
those of a Piccaso triggerfish!

Another one, rather common there, was a butterflyfish that is
solid black except for a single white square on the main body.

I was barely able to make out two very colorful fishes that was
pointed out to me by the DM, that they looked like a larger
version of the Mandarinfish I had seen in Palau.
Hello Bob,

Sir, thank you for the dive report. I really enjoyed reading about it and it
must have been hard to not tour the island since the moias' are the reason
most everybody goes there.

I enjoyed reading about different types of marine life as you know that is
intriguing to me.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your trip sir.

Take care,

Ray