School of Life

You need cooling
Baby I’m not fooling
I’m gonna send ya
Back to schooling – Led Zeppelin

While the Maldives corals have taken a hit from the warm oceans of climate change and El Nino, the schooling bathing beauties remain as colourful and concentrated as ever. A-fish-ionadoes of the Maldives often refer to the waters as “fish soup” (perhaps an unfortunate term with the excessive water temperatures hitting 30 degrees!). And Instagram has become the digital runway for these fishionista pageants to be shared with the world. My favourite snaps are the one so jam packed with fish that they sort of form kaleidoscopic tapestries of underwater colour (thanks to Verena for help with identifying the more obscure marine models)…

1. Powder Blue Surgeonfish [ABOVE]
   
2. Glass Fish
   
3. Blue Striped Snapper
   
4. Fusilier
   
5. Convict Surgeonfish
   
6. Yellow Sweeper
   
7. Trevally
   
8. Orange Anthia
   
9. Blue Fusilier
   
10. Oriental Sweet Lips
    
11. Cardinal Fish
    
12. Schooling Bannerfish
    
13. Bigeye
    
14. Double Saddle Butterflyfish
    
15. Humpback Snapper