True Colors Thursday... Purple

True Colors Thursday is a meme hosted by Blue and today's color is Purple!

These are purple sea fans. They are very common on Atlantic reefs.

Here is another lovely reef scene showing some sea fans. This picture was taken in 2002 at a place called white bank here off Key Largo. I am going back there tomorrow for the first time in ages and doubt it will still be so pretty. I think I will try to take the same photo for comparison... if I can find that spot!

This is a fairly rare coral called blue crust coral. Looks purple to me!

This is a Creole Wrasse's purple tail. They were all over where I was working the other day and I tried to get a pic but he turned away and I had to get back to work! I posted a different pic of them on my violet post.

Here are some purple sponges. This pic was taken around 100ft in Navassa Island. Even with a flash it is difficult to see true colors when you are that deep. These sponges are a really pretty irridescent purple when you see them in real life. You will have to take my word for it!

I admit to recycling this one from the recent violet post. It is one of my favorites though since it includes a beautiful thicket of my beloved elkhorn coral! The Moon Jelly in the foreground is a lovely purple. Pretty when they are not so close since they can have a nasty sting!

We could not find a new actual picture of Moose with something purple so we thought we would follow Joey & Zeke's lead and turn to Face in Hole for some help. Here is Moose as Dame Edna with puple hair!
Next week's color is ivory which I think will be pretty difficult but will see what I can do!