Ok – so if you couldn’t tell from the post title, I’m going to do a couple days of shrimp posts… and this is one I actually can positively identify. These are Durban Hingebeak Shrimp. They are a shrimp that I’ve always wanted to see…
Category: Underwater
Nudibranch mating habits are weird… First, all nudibranchs are hermaphrodites (which means they are both male and female at the same time) – so when nudis mate, they both have the chance to get “pregnant”. I say chance because apparently some nudibranchs can decide whether…
I rarely take shots like this underwater (I generally don’t do a great job with them), and I honestly don’t even remember taking this one… but it turned out quite nice if I do say so myself.
So I’ll give a little story with today’s subject… Iluh had mentioned a couple sites where she had seen frogfish before but for whatever reason we never managed to see then the first time I went diving there. So it was one of the things…
Another whale we got to see during our cetacean (whales and dolphins) survey…
Ok – it seems I have an abundance of nudibranch photos, so here’s an encore performance (and these are all from the first trip to Amed, I still have a nice assortment from the second shorter visit).
Well, I’m now on Atauro Island and the two week whale and dolphin expedition is over, and I did get the chance to see some Pygmy Blue Whales. The internet connectivity here isn’t the greatest, so I can’t upload too many photos, but here are…
Ok – just as I did a three day jumping spider set, let’s do a three day nudibranch set. I don’t have IDs on most of these, but you probably expected that…. just enjoy the beautiful colors and patterns.
Up until just recently, I’ve only ever been able to photograph the little cuttlefish (I think they’re juvenile broadclubs, but I’m not 100% sure without my ID books). Actually, in all the dives I’ve done, I’ve only seen maybe 6 or 7 cuttlefish total –…
These cool guys aren’t too common on the reefs, but Iluh managed to spot a handful of them while we were diving. They tend to sit propped up on their pectoral fins and will gently rock back and forth with the current – much like…
I took these two photos as we were just about the exit the water at the end of the dive. I literally was about to surface and stand up when I saw these two white-spotted boxfish doing some sort of courtship dance or territorial display…
Another thing I’ve always wanted to see while diving… a nudibranch laying eggs. In truth, I didn’t even notice this until I was processing the photos as I didn’t see the classic nudibranch rose spiral while in the water. And there is always the chance…
