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Judges Award - Thats amore credit James Williams

James Williams

That's amore. It's a tight squeeze for these yellow moray eels (Gymnothorax prasinus), peering from their crevice home in an underwater cliff at the Mokohinau Islands in the Hauraki Gulf. They seem decidely unimpressed with the disturbance in their neighbourhood.