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17/01/2008: "CLOSE CORAL ENCOUNTER .....Bommies"
Some charter boat skippers remain hundreds of meters from coral formations like these, for safety.
Not our Wally Muller who had exceptional confidence and capabilities.
Wally was a former professional fisherman turned spear fisherman, then diver charter boat owner. For a while he was a real life King of the Coral Sea. Rum became his worst enemy combined with boredom.
Wally wasn't cut out to entertain masses of people. He'd lived a mostly solitary existence beforehand.
Here he navigates Coralita into shallow waters giving guests a thrill and close encounter with corals.
A small sand cay well in the distance. Water visibility is usually about 60 meters in The Coral Sea where this picture was made.
Few trips venture that far offshore today due to fuel costs.
