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Our voyage on the Bilikiki.
Fresh Direct, Solomons style.
No roads, no trucks, just dugout canoes.
The produce is laid out on the "tinnies". The smaller boats we actually dive from.
Banded Sea Krait (a seasnake).
Shrimpfish. They hover in little vertical schools.
Crocodilefish. A bottom lurker.
Cuttlefish. A cephalopod, not a fish, related to squid and octopus.
Cuttlefish, the female is depositing eggs in the reef, the male is guarding her from other males.
Cuttlefish, interesting mimicry behavior.
It's pretending to be part of the Elkhorn Coral reef.
More interesting behavior. Banded Shrimpgoby with shrimp.
The shrimp keeps the burrow they both live in excavated, the goby keeps alert for danger.
It's a worldwide behavior, Pacific, Red Sea, Caribbean.
Tiny Yellow Goby, bossing around a shrimp three times it's size.
It takes a lot of patience to get the goby and the shrimp out together.
They have to get used to you being there.
Probably a ten minute wait to get these shots.
Fire Dartfish. Also a Goby.
Signal Gobies. They are together and working on a burrow.
Signal Gobies. They are sharing the same burrow.
Yellowlined Cardinalfish.
Threadfin Anthias. Male guarding his harem.
Striped Surgeonfish. They have razor sharp barbs near the tail.
Yellowmargin Triggerfish.
Titan Triggerfish. A proven history of biting divers when guarding a nest.
Clown Triggerfish. Not particularly intested in being photographed.
Flame Angelfish. Small and elusive, about an inch.
Pacific Double Saddle Butterflyfish.
Pacific Double Saddle Butterflyfish.
Dot and Dash Butterflyfish.
Ornate Butterflyfish. That's a small blue cleaner wrasse on it.
Eight Banded Butterflyfish.
Eight Banded Butterflyfish.
Banded Archerfish. Can "shoot" down insects above surface with a jet of water from its mouth.
Banded Archerfish, lurking in mangrove roots, looking for insects above.
Banded Archerfish. In mangroves. Divers also alert for salt water crocodiles that inhabit
mangroves.
Pink Anemonefish. These fish live and breed in association with different species of anemones.
Spinecheek Anemonefish, male.
Spinecheek Anemonefish., female.
Spinecheek Anemonefish, female.
Spinecheek Anemonefish, the male is the smaller one.
White Bonnet Anemonefish. This is a true rarity, it's a hybrid between the Orangefin and Orange
Anemonefish.
White Bonnet Anemonefish. Only occurs where the range of the Orangefin and Orange overlap,
Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.
White Bonnet Anemonefish.
White Bonnet Anemonefish. It's very unusual to have two species in the same anemone but
thats how the hybridization occurs. There's an Orange here below.
White Bonnet Anemonefish.
White Bonnet Anemonefish.
White Bonnet Anemonefish, took a lot of these. Never seen one before.
And may never see one again unless we go back to the very limited area that are found.
True Clown Anemonefish. The "Nemo" fish fave.
True Clown Anemonefish. There's a more common False Clown in other parts of the Indo Pacific
that has no black in the markings.
True Clown Anemonefish. Surprisingly variable in coloration. This mostly black example is a
rarity.
True Clown Anemonefish, rarer mostly black coloration. I got this one on the last dive of the last
day.
Solomon Islands, April 2019
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Indonesia 3. The Ugly.
Indonesia 4. Nudibranchs.
Indonesia 5. Critters.
Great White Shark
St Vincent, 2009
Red Sea, Egypt 2009
Galapagos Underwater
Galapagos Land
Machias Seal Island, Maine. June 2010 and May 2019
St Kitts and Saba, August 2010
Philippines, Puerto Galera January 2011 Fish.
Philippines, Puerto Galera January 2011 Creatures
Fiji, May 2011. Beqa Reefs
Bali, Indonesia 2012. Fish.
Bali, Indonesia 2012. Behaviors and critters.
Bali, Indonesia 2012. Nudibranchs.
Blue Heron Bridge, Riviera Beach, Florida.
North Sulawesi 2013. Pipefish and Seahorses
North Sulawesi 2013. Fish
North Sulawesi 2013. Mostly Nudibranchs
North Sulawesi 2013. Crabs and Critters
North Sulawesi 2013. Cuttlefish and Octopus
Blue Heron Bridge, May 2013
Komodo, Indonesia. August 2014 and 2019 daytime
Komodo, Indonesia. August 2014, night dives
Philippines, Dumaguete 2015 Fish
Philippines Dumaguete 2015, Creatures and Critters
Dominica 2015 and 2017. Before Hurricane Maria
Raja Ampat, January 2016
Cayman Islands, October 2016
North Sulawesi 2017. Fish
North Sulawesi 2017, Creatures
Anilao, Philippines 2017. Fish
Anilao, Philippines 2017. Eels, Pipefish
Anilao, Philippines 2017. Crabs, shrimp, octopus.
Anilao, Philippines 2017. Nudibranchs.
Triton Bay, Indonesia. 2018
Villa Markisa, Tulamben. Bali, 2018. Fish and Creatures.
Villa Markisa, Tulamben. Bali, 2018. Nudibranchs.
Solomon Islands, April 2019
Siladen Resort. Siladen Island, Indonesia 2020
Coral Triangle. Things with stings.
Coral Triangle. Frogfish.
Coral Triangle. Crabs & Shrimp.
Coral Triangle. Cuttlefish, Octopi and Squid.
Coral Triangle Butterfly and Angelfish
Belize, October 2021.