An easy way to navigate Edge of Reef can be this one: to start from a curious photo, from an intriguing phenomenon that hits us. And try to know more.
As photographers we try hard to highlight a behaviour, a natural phenomenon. We like to photograph animals while they are doing something, we like to enter in their world secretly, without disturbing...

The encounter with the sunfish, Mola mola, is already a strange event. Pelagic fish, following mysterious migratory paths, seldom crosses the divers' routes. This animal has been photographed in the sea facing Bali (Candidasa), during the past month of September. But this is not the only unusual fact: another is the interaction between the sunfish and a bannerfish (Heniochus diphreutes). The latter, normally a plankton feeder, likes to approach the large pelagics (when these, in turn, approach the reef), feeding on their parasites, acting as a cleaner.
Every september, in the Indian Ocean waters facing the Gods' Island, this meeting takes place between the ocean wanderer and its faithfull cleaner.

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