The photographer's eye

Anchorages like this one often hide interesting surprises - visually, of course, because a wreck inevitably involved a navigational error, and sometimes even a tragedy. But the sight of this hull still resisting, and even floating a little, is almost disconcerting. A bit of local geography first: a wide channel opens up in front of the coral and a second one opens up on one side, creating a kind of lagoon. At first sight, this site could be a rather nice anchorage, but the current is much too strong for the ground tackle to hold. The old trawler probably paid the…