Snorkeler at Buck Island

f8 @ 1/60s, ASA 64, Ektachrome 64 slide film, Nikonos II w 15mm and Ikelite 225 flash


"Buck Island Reef National Monument," Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Buck Island Reef National Monument protects Buck Island, a small, uninhabited 176-acre (712,000 m²) island about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of the northeast coast of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, and 18,839 acres of submerged lands, totaling 19,015 acres. It was first established as a protected area by the U.S. Government in 1948, with the intention of preserving “one of the finest marine gardens in the Caribbean Sea.” The U.S. National Monument was created in 1961 by John F. Kennedy and greatly expanded in 2001 by Bill Clinton, over the opposition of local fishermen. Buck Island National Monument is one of few places in the Virgin Islands where brown pelicans and threatened least terns nest.
Buck Island, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
 
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