Breathtaking images show a pair of adventurous freedivers swimming through schools of parrot fish on Western Australia’s Ningaloo Reef
- A photographer has taken a series of incredible photographs while swimming with a school of parrot fish
- Lilly Palmer, 21, took the photos with a group of friends as they free-dived at Coral Bay in Western Australia
- They took selfies while surrounded by parrot fish and her friends dived head-first into a tornado-like school
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An adventurous photographer has taken a series of beautiful pictures as she swam with a massive school of parrot fish.
Lilly Palmer, 21, took the breathtaking photos while she and a group of friends were free-diving at Coral Bay on the Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia.
She took selfies with the parrot fish swimming behind her and photos of her friends diving head-first into the large school of fish.
An intrepid photographer took these breathtaking pictures of the moment her free-diving friends swam into a massive school of parrot fish
Lilly Palmer, 21, took the breathtaking photos while her and a group of friends were free-diving at Coral Bay on the Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia
Lilly also took photos of some of her friends diving head-first into the eye of the parrot fish tornado at Coral Bay in Western Australia
Lilly, who works as a snorkel guide on tour boats in Western Australia, described the visual spectacle she witnessed in the water.
‘Some friends and I took a boat out and we came across this ball of schooling parrot fish in shallow, clear water. I took all of these photos of my friends swimming through the fish,’ Lilly said.
‘We were free-diving with the fish. It was very amazing to see these fish ball up and swim around you when you dive through them.
‘The beautiful colours of the fish against the blue water and white sand made it look so beautiful.
‘It was also exciting to have the fish completely surround you and even block out the sun as they swam above you so you couldn’t see the sky when you were down there.’
There are 95 species of parrot fish and they can be found in shallow tropical and subtropical areas, including Coral Bay.
Lilly talked about her experience swimming with the fish: ‘It was very amazing to see these fish ball up and swim around you when you dive through them’
‘It was also exciting to have the fish completely surround you and even block out the sun as they swam above you so you couldn’t see the sky when you were down there,’ Lilly said
Coral Bay on the Ningaloo Reef is a coral garden that lies a few metres under the white sandy beach where fish and coral at the bay can be easily accessed via snorkelling
Adventure-hungry tourists can swim with Manta Rays, drive a quad bike through a secret beach or charter a fishing boat for bottom-fishing
There are 95 species of parrot fish and they can be found in shallow tropical and subtropical oceans like that of Coral Bay
Coral Bay on the Ningaloo Reef is a coral garden that lies a few metres beneath the surface of the ocean.
The fish and coral at the bay can be easily accessed via snorkelling or on one of the coral viewing boats.
Adventure-hungry tourists can swim with Manta Rays, drive a quad bike through a secret beach or charter a fishing boat for bottom-fishing.
Lilly, who has been free diving, snorkelling and scuba diving since the age of 15, said the experience was totally safe.
‘It was just us and the fish. It’s not dangerous at all,’ Lilly said.
‘Even if there were sharks preying on these fish which there sometimes is, it still would not have been dangerous and we would have still gotten in to swim with them.’
Lilly said she has been free diving, snorkelling and scuba diving since the age of 15 and said the experience wasn’t dangerous at all
‘Even if there were sharks preying on these fish which there sometimes is, it still would not have been dangerous and we would have still gotten in to swim with them’, Lilly said