We went for two more dives in Aitutaki. The dive boat anchored just off the reef outside the lagoon, bobbing gently in the swell.
While the small wildlife was nowhere near as impressive as on the Great Barrier Reef, the big stuff was super cool — an eagle ray that soared up at us out of the deep-ocean drop-off, and maybe a dozen turtles, both resting on the reef (the bottom right photo is of Susan and the other dive pair swimming a foot away from one of these) and also swimming around (bottom left, I promise…)