I thought I’d have a bit of fun and post some of my favourite images of fish as they look at me head on. It’s such a beautiful perspective, and one that often makes you wonder what they are thinking. Enjoy!

Parrotfish eat algae and coral polyps, and to get at these they chow down on the hard coral skeletons. More teeth in their throat (plates known as a pharyngeal mill) grind the coral into a paste so they can extract the nutritious coral polyps and algae. What comes out the other end is beautiful white sand. A lot of it!

What a cool name for a fish, the piano fangblenny! It is more properly known as Plagiotremus tapeinosoma. Many snorkellers will know them first by their little nip as they hit and run! Once you’ve seen them and experienced them that first time, you know to shoo them away to avoid another nibble!

Love these doubleheader wrasse, Coris bulbifrons. Beautiful deep smoky blue with a big bulge on their forehead, they will quite often just casually cruise on past. Like many wrasse, they change sex, colour and appearance quite radically as they age and grow.

How special to see this. Normally shy and a little timid, these little leatherjackets were quite happy concentrating on each other as I watched them courting.

This little eastern footballer or mado has suddenly started hanging with a family of stripeys that I've been watching. But it always keeps slightly apart, aloof, even. In fact, sometimes it almost seems like it is herding them - and giving lectures! This guy definitely has attitude!

The marbled parrotfish (Leptoscarus vaigiensis) likes to camouflage itself, disappearing into the seagrass and algae on which it feeds.

Attracted by the easy pickings, I then watched as the silver trevally – Pseudocaranx sp 'dentex' – arrived. Like a sleek pack of wolves they swept around, in and out of the drum scooping up whatever they could. The fry shrank back, huddling together, trying to stay out of the maelstrom and away from so many hungry mouths.

The banded scalyfin damselfish are keen underwater gardeners who don't take kindly to their carefully tended and guarded patches being raided by schools of elegant wrasse.