The closeups in the two shots below show a badly bleached colony with the coral polyps (those tufts of tentacles scattered over the coral) obviously still alive.
Pavona minuta suffered some bleaching, but most seemed to recover. The second shot below shows an unbleached healthy colony.
Some scattered bleaching was seen in species of Acropora, but most seemed unaffected. The white ones below are all in this family. Apparently the pink tips to the branches are not provided by the algae.
This photo on a lagoon pinnacles shows some bleached colonies of Acropora scattered about, with the surrounding Montipora, Pocillopora and Fungia corals apparently unaffected.
One must be careful attributing white corals to bleaching. I think the patchy "bleached" areas on the one below are actually dead spots, eaten by crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci).
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