On the return trip north to Tana, we visited more parks and got to see Golden Bamboo Lemurs…
Category: Travel
I could have sworn I shared this one already, and I guess I kind of have shared a small slice of it… It is the image I used in the header banner on the main page. Oh and as a bonus, here’s another I haven’t…
I’d seen one of these in Wakatobi, so as soon as I saw it, I knew exactly what I was looking at. Unfortunately the camera was acting up and I could not get a good photo of the larger female like I wanted. There were…
One of the invertebrate species we surveyed… this species of sea urchin burrows into crevices in the reef and you only ever see them protruding out of a hole like this.
I spotted these egrets on this fence both times I went to the spiny forest to check out the baobabs. I had wanted to get closer, but I also like this shot with a bit of action going on with these guys chasing each other.…
Sometimes I feel bad not being more specific on the species of critters I am sharing – remember that shrimp goby post from the other day? But sometimes it is really difficult. Case in point, this looks like a fairly distinct nudibranch, but once you…
Oh yeah… I went to that Paris place… Actually, the day I arrived, the one lady who sold me my metro tickets mentioned that they were going to be doing a light show on the Eiffel Tower to celebrate its 130th anniversary. At the time,…
One of the benthic animals that we identified for our surveys were zooanthids. We didn’t get to the level of species identification, and flipping through my reef creature ID book quickly, there is little info in there about them. This is a less common species…
The guy above is an Arc-eye Hawkfish and the gal (yes, I am sure it is a female because the males have wavy lines on their cheeks) is a Speckled Sandperch. Neither fish were among the ones we surveyed and I realize I was pretty…
These trees are just so cool… The locals will carve into them to be able to drink the water that they store… and then eventually those carved openings become large enough that you can also use them for shelter… But there is just something to…
Well, I found a quick way to get some more posts… I have a bunch of photos I’ve uploaded with the intention of sharing, but have not yet done so… So first up is a cool nudibranch that I only saw a couple times on…
These are almost always somewhere on a coral reef, and they’re always interesting to look at, and fun to make disappear with just a wave of your hand…
I should ID this little guy, and I wish I had been able to get a photo with his burrow-mate shrimp (they’re usually much more skittish and vanish before the fish do)… but for now, just sharing a photo of a cool fish…
