![]() The Buccoo’s seaward slope is a more depressing scene. What the facts about the barrel sponge barrel sponges. Yet, the famous patch reef, known as Coral Gardens, composed primarily of star corals, still sparkles below the surface in a relatively healthy state. Sponges are a mass of tiny animals bound together into a poriferous body of different structures, like the giant barrel sponge. Thirty years after Laydoo’s observations, many of the patch reefs do not exist. However, even back then, there were fields of coral rubble along the reef flat because of storm and anchor damage as well as over twenty years of walking on the reef. Pockets of vibrant life occur within the lagoon. Laydoo described the presence of many reef patches as consisting of thickets of branching corals such as the fragile Staghorn as well as finger coral. The sheltered mangroves and lagoon persist because of the protection afforded by Buccoo Reef.Īnother unique feature of Buccoo Reef is the presence of back reef and patch reefs occurring in the lagoon behind the reef. It is a unique reef system seen nowhere else in Trinidad and Tobago, and is special because it is a natural beauty, primarily because of the growth of the hard corals. From Buccoo Bay, Buccoo Reef extends southwards arching its way to Pigeon Point.
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