Sunday, March 26, 2006

Sipadan Mar '06 (2)

Shirley S with, er.. are those sea grass or coral? (28th Mar update : Gabriel said these were hydroid~! SS, were you aware of it that you're so close to these stinging fellow? I didn't know at all... lucky didn't touch them...)


Hazel, Winnie(if not mistaken) and Shirley T with friendly turles.


Octopus.. cute~

Philip (if not mistaken) with the octopus. Can you see the octopus?

Let's play... "Locate the animals":


Cute little shrimp. (29th Mar update: This is anemone shrimp)
Eagle ray. (28th Mar update: Andy said this is not eagle ray, anybody which species is this?)

Ever so colourful ribbon eel.

These looked like stalactite, very beautiful.

Sun rise. Another day of diving began~


Played with tiny hermit crabs during surface interval. These hermit crabs, small as they were, they have strong grabs... One of it(not the biggest in this photo) "took" a tiny tiny piece of Andy's skin...


"海带海带海带..."

Clockwise from top left Philip, Yok Sau, Brenda, Jacky, Andy, Hazel, ST, Winnie, SS, Me, Gabriel and Alex.

Sharks. Look at the background... devastating.. all dead corals.



Crocodile fish'es eye. At one point I was very close to it. I wondered did it ever bite anyone...

Evening came. Night dives at SWV only cost RM35. We were ecstatic that it cost that little but after our check out dive at the house reef... we understand why it cost so little...
This juvenile was very camera shy... kept turning away from me when my camera is focus...

What shrimp is this? (28th Mar update : This is cleaner shrimp. Ohhh.. this is the one that one female diver in a documentary opened her mouth and let this type of shrimp clean her mouth.. hehe...)

I've never seen sea hare till this trip. They are very big~!

I forgot is this called dragon seahorse? (28th Mar Update : This is harlequin ghost pipefish, not seahorse. hehe...) (29th Mar Update : ghost pipefish is also under seahorse family)

Hermit crab's close up model shot.

Is this a squid?? So cute~~~~

The mandarin fish which fell in love with human (Andy) instead of the male of its own species. So Andy and Alex didn't manage to see them mate. (28th Mar Update : The mandarin fish who was lying on Andy's arm was a male, not female... it was a "gay night"...)


6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ghose pipefish also under seahorse family lah.

Anonymous said...

I thk its blue spoted ray.

Anonymous said...

Maybe its blue spot hvn't fully developed... but its snout looks a bit different.. then again, maybe because of the angle..

Anonymous said...

Hydroid?! eeehh..of course i didnt notice.. otherwise i wldnt hv stayed so closed. hmm..must be too focused to give u a good post so you can take a good shot on me.. "ai siew mai mia" (in hokkien)..lol

Michelle said...

haha... ai sui mai mia.. we girls all are like that... but that was a good shot (praising myself, eh?? LOL) , I like the photo a lot, that's why posted here. hehe..

Anonymous said...

er, sorry, like comment was from me, forgot to change the user.