Today I’ll share a trio of butterfly fish that were included in our surveys with Blue Ventures – the Eastern Triangle Butterfly Fish, the Redfin Butterfly Fish, and the Chevron Butterfly Fish… I’ll leave you to try and figure out which is which (hint: I…
In one of my rare good wide-angle shots, I managed to capture this well timed shot as Elka, one of the volunteers during the two week cetacean expedition, approached this massive tabular coral with the school of Yellow Striped Goatfish underneath.
While we’re on the subject of grumpy fish… This particular shrimp goby really didn’t seem to want to let me take photos of his shrimp, and then those eyes to finish off the grumpy look… 🙂
One of several species of fish that always look grumpy, I managed to get this nice portrait and thought it worked well for a square crop…
I would see these cool guys a significant amount at the dive site we used for training in Timor, but I never would have my camera with me when we were there. Then luckily on our very last dive, one of the other volunteers spotted…
For almost my entire stay on Atauro Island in Timor Leste, the seas were incredibly calm. I mean so calm that you could barely see the difference between sea and sky. Here’s a short video showing just how calm it was… and this was on…
As promised… another video for you… I might have a couple more coming soon – we’ll see how motivated I am to finish them.
Just a quick highlight video of some of the nice turtle encounters I had while in Timor Leste… The full highlights video from the expedition is coming soon! (like in the next post)
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.
