Terry Lilley, Critter of the Week
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Most divers will tell you that Hawaiian corals are fairly boring to look at or photograph, but that is just not the case with the fluorescent, blue-rice coral! Early explorers that sailed into Hanalei Bay wrote about how the reef was bright blue and purple under the crystal-clear waters. Kaua‘i had the largest concentration of blue-rice coral I have ever seen in the entire Pacific Ocean until 2014 when most of it died.

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