You didn’t ask…we listened! Due to a complete lack of activity on the Fruits Forum, we’ve made some big updates. We’ve added 7 (seven!) new forums for different types of questions, so if you didn’t know where to ask us something, now it’s easy! If you can’t figure out which forum is most appropriate, just ask!

As of this afternoon, Madam J is on solo expedition in St. Martin to take her rescue diver course. I am here. She took the identification guides for Fish and Creatures, but I figured I would update the Corals and Sponges section of the site. I had some nice photos, particularly of sponges. It turns out, the sponges are in the Creatures book, and the Corals book (which I do have) just has corals. Even worse, it’s really hard to tell the difference between closely-related corals! In the end, I did soldier on and create a few pages in our guide.

Ah, here we are, back to the very first expedition. Below is the fancy photo thingy. In addition to some underwater shots, you can also see us at the Butterfly Farm and the remains of Fort Louis in Marigot.

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Here are some photos from the St. Martin portion of our May 2008 expedition. Again, no strobe means not much color, except for the E.S.S. photos, of course! Extreme Shallow Snorkeling allows one to achieve vibrant color in photos without a flash due to the shallowness of the water. On a sunny day, it is often hard to tell that certain E.S.S. shots are underwater at all. Except for the fish.

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Here are a few shots from the Saba portion of our May 2008 expedition. Saba is basically a mountain jutting out of the water. One beach for part of the year only, basically no flat land and the shortest airport runway on earth. There are also great reefs which, due to their relative depth are very healthy. These photos were done before I had an underwater strobe, so there isn’t a lot of color, unfortunately, but there was a seahorse!

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Fancy photo thingy is back with some photos from Bermuda in July.

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Another fancy photo thingy? It sounds crazy, but it’s true. We’ve created a fancy photo thingy for our August 2009 Bermuda expedition. A couple things to note: we’ve included a lot of landscapes and wreck photos because both are pretty amazing in Bermuda. The reefs are healthy and colorful, and the area abounds with wrecks from the past few centuries. There are fewer fish portraits, mostly because we weren’t as good at getting close to fish then.

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We’ve been reviewing the photographs for previous expeditions and are proud to announce our fancy photo thingy for our January 2009 Roatan Expedition. Diving the extensive reefs was a joy, as was snorkeling in Half Moon Bay. We were also able to enjoy the exact opposite of extreme shallow snorkeling: a trip down 2,000 feet underwater in a submarine, during which we were able to observe and photograph a variety of deep sea life.

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If you’ve seen us, we’ve probably already talked about this, but our application videos are online now for the job where you hang out on the Great Barrier Reef for six months. It seems like an ideal expedition for Les Fruits de Mer. Links to our videos are here:

Madam J

Marc AuMarc

Hopefully we’ll make the shortlist so you can actually vote for us. There are only 34,000 other applicants, so our odds should be pretty good. G’day mate!

Marc AuMarc has officially completed his application for the World’s Greatest Job. As soon as his application is available online, we’ll let you know where to go and vote for him!!!