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Sunset from our villa.

Green Turtles, digging

out from the hatch nest.

And there's more!

Heading to the water.

And more! Mocha, one of

the resort cat adoptees

required forcible removal

at this point.

Years later.

Have gone from less than

two inches to three feet.

Turtles everywhere,

heading to the birth

beach area.

You can never have too

many turtles....

And more--some were

over three feet long

Turtle.

Yep, it's another turtle.

Tiny soft coral crab,

smaller than a dime.

Soft coral crab, sticks

little pieces of soft coral

on itself for camouflage.

Orang Utang Crab,

maybe an inch wide. The

"hairy" algae on it also

acts as a disguise.

Two of them, see the little

red eyes.

Porcelain Crab, size of a

quarter.

Crinoid Squat Lobster.

Not the eating kind.

Possibly an inch long.

Blue Ring Octopus.

Blue Ring Octopus.

Small, lethally venomous

bite.

Blue Ring Octopus.

About four inches wide,

bite contains tetrodotoxin

which causes breathing

failure.

Breathing failure also

causes loss of life....

Supposedly one of these

little critters has enough

tetrodotoxin to kill fifteen

adult humans.

Don't use bare hands to

move into camera range!

Pygmy Seahorse--maybe

1/2inch long.

Not the easiest to find in

a camera viewfinder.

Pennant Bannerfish

Pennant Bannerfish,

three inches.

Moorish Idols feeding in a

small school.

Moorish Idols, all over the

Pacific from the

Galapagos to Australia.

Schooling Catfish.

Hundreds of them, about

four inches long.

Not catfish, Convictfish.

Same black and white

coloration and behavior

as the catfish, but

smaller.

Convictfish. Mimic the

much bigger Catfish

(which are toxic and

unpalatable).

Pair of Crocodile fish.

Hideous water clarity.

Bartels Dragonet, 1-1/2

inches.

Squirrelfish

Spotted Hawkfish. All

Hawkfish have the little

"fingers" on the dorsal

fin spines.

Comet Fish. A real little

skulker, found by my wife

Ray deep under a dark

and gloomy ledge.

I then spent ten minutes

waiting for it to come out

just to get these two

shots. Probably not rare,

but very seldom seen.

Clown Anemone fish

Orange Striped Anemone

fish.

Sometimes known as

"Skunk Anemone fish".

The female is the bigger

one

Spinecheek Anemone

fish.

Spinecheek Anemone

fish. The female is the

larger one to the left.

Siladen Resort and Spa. Siladen Island,

Indonesia March 2020