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.