Ok – a bit a treat for you here for this and the next post… while working on my Dive Master certification here at La Bila, I’ve also had the opportunity to do some fun dives with some of the guests and I’ve made a…
Category: Underwater
These photos might not look like much, but they are what is referred to as “coral recruits”. These small corals are just settling in and with some luck will grow to be members of the larger reef… but considering corals tend to only grow a…
Yep – I did a little bait and switch there with the title. This is indeed a snake, so my apologies to any ophidiophobes out there… and I guess for those of you with a fear of snakes, it gets worse. These guys are among…
One of the species of butterfly fish we surveyed during the Blue Ventures expedition…
I know I haven’t much wanted to celebrate Christmas in the past few years (and this year is no different), but since all of my fellow volunteers on my Timor Leste expedition had asked me to take a group photo of them all holding dive…
I spotted this pair of mating sea turtles shortly after we started one morning of the cetacean surveys off the coast of Dili, Timor Leste. Our best guess is that these are Olive Ridley Sea Turtles.
So I often try to find and photograph these little crustaceans that live among host crinoids (feather stars). I tried to find a photo that made the crinoid the main subject (other than the one linked above when I was showing them swimming), and I…
This little seahorse was much easier to get to and photograph than the last one… It was not less of an exciting find during the dive though. I was glad for the second opportunity to spend another bit of time working on a really stellar…
So we found this octopus on the same night dive as the last post… and in about the same area as we were returning back to shore at the end of the dive. Originally I had thought it might have been the same octopus, but…
Iluh spotted this little guy towards the beginning of one of our night dives. He was pretty small but allowed me to get some pretty nice photos… even if it was difficult to spot on the sand.
Today I’ve got a photo that I did some more backscatter cleanup on, so hover your mouse over the photo to see the original and then move it off again to see the clean version. And also a video of me chasing a Peacock Mantis…
These guys are not related to praying mantids, nor are they actually shrimp, but it is easy to see why they got the name “peacock” with all those colors… … especially with that tail…
Today we’ve got a couple shots of Sexy Anemone Shrimp (so called because of their tendency to “dance” with their butts in the air), a pair of Peacock-tail Anemone Shrimp, and a pair of Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp. Enjoy!
So unlike the last post (and the next post), I do not know for certain what kind of shrimp these day. I think the first is some sort of spotted cleaner shrimp, the second is something like long-claw shrimp, and the last is some sort…
