Purple Jelly Fish

With Pete gadding off to collect fish photos for your delight I am left to keep you entertained until his return. Snorkelling off Naama Bay beach, these little blobs could be seen all over the place. Anyone know what they are? I doubt they are really called purple jelly fish.

Thai Fish Curry

Fish of the week watchers will have realised that veteran correspondent and Fish Affairs specilaist Pete has not posted for some time due to 'personal and professional' issues.

Anyway the drought is over and a crack team of FOTW divers, including a new trainee and a fish affairs correspondent is off to Koh Tao to take loads of fish pics for your viewing pleasure.

Back soon ...

Anemonefish

Well, the dust has settled on some pretty poor England performances, Rooney showing himself up for exactly what he is (an albeit talented yob), a resignation or two, some spawny (the only reference to fish I am intending to make in my closing world cup summary remarks) Italian goals (well maybe not the two that put out the Germans, hooray) and whats more Ronaldo (the Brazilian one) was attempting to impersonate the Blubber Baron (previously featured here on FOTW). Well, life goes on and I suspect these two anemonefish has been happily guarding their 'patch' whilst the world has been otherwise pre-occupied. I know which I wish I had been watching these last 4 weeks. One last thing, when you spell check FOTW it suggests you replace it with FOOTE. Spooky eh!

Indian Tubeworm

The feathery tenticles of this Indian tubeworm were spotted by FOTW divers recently. Nice composition.

Lined Butterflyfish

Well, after the inevitable stress yesterday evening of England playing in a World Cup finals match against a bunch of journey man 1st division players and some aged pensioned off ex-Man Utd pros dragged out of retirement, what better antedote than tropical fish gliding by. Here are two beauties for you. By the way, for those of you logging in from a far away coral reef England won with two late but also beauties from Crouch and Gerrard

Masked Pufferfish (at rest)

Another one from my extensive album of fishes rear ends. An occupational hazard in the world of fish photography. Next week Kylie....

FOTW would also like to reassure its readership that despite World Cup fever striking the FOTW offices it will continue to bring you the best shots from the marine world. No doubt our intrepid current affairs editor will bring us some excitting stories with a fish angle from the World Cup over the next month. By the way, my Guardian wall chart of UK fish has only temporarily been replaced with my Metro World Cup one.

Emperor Angelfish

Still not got my definitive picture of an Emperor Angelfish. This shot snapped recently in Ras Mofamed National Park in hte Red Sea is the best yet.