Susan's Reef
Also known as: Susan's
A submerged ridge linked by a saddle to the larger Vanessa's Reef, set apart by dense stands of red whip gorgonians. The Underwater Photography Guide calls it perhaps the most photographed site in Papua New Guinea.
Susan's Reef runs north from a saddle that connects it to Vanessa's Reef, with a sheer wall on the east side and a sloping hard coral garden on the west. Its signature is the thicket of red sea whips at the southern end, tangled with colourful crinoids. Large red sea fans further up are good places to look for longnose hawkfish, and razorfish hide among the sea whips. The shallows are mostly staghorn coral with anemones hosting several kinds of anemonefish. Photographers have reported pygmy seahorses on the gorgonians.
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