Show DEEP IN T THE HE CORAL SEA balry forest of wondrous shapes shape 9 mud and colors in a sea of emerald in no part of the world afe are the part ly buried ocean wonders more lavishly displayed in all their endless variety than off this northeastern coast of terra erra australia within the great barrier ner reef in the coral sea bea As the boat is launched to take us ashore say says s a writer in good words the wonders commence at once it is surely some fairy forest where elfin kings icings court princesses in fleshly guise or water babies sit and pout on some coral bowlder boulder bow lder or is it a submarine flower garden where the mermaids dwell deep decd down in clear bright water wondrous shapes and colors are am seen at first indistinctly like a tinted photograph out of focus then as the water gets shallower and lower more and more distinctly flash the je jewel w fires and the picture is complete large flat bowls of milk white coral first attract the eye then others with branching antlers anglers like a fallen deer deep on only ly the fairy herd there are lying buried in a hug huge confused contused cont used ca mass some are covered with ten thousand sharp pinnacles of a light color e each ach pinnacle having a bright blue eye or what looks looka like au an eye at the eitrem ity all in a sea of emerald this dream of enchantment we fear before we see half the glory of it we might awake and alas forget too soon there light and feathery branches of fernlike fern like coral are blushing a soft pink or pale nasturtium yellow here large solid masses of brain coral round and white the surface in crusted or engraved with the most delicate lace tracings and others green and shaped like a coarse MOSS |