It was not until I viewed the picture on the pc that I noticed that there was a moray eel in the hole behind the cleaner shrimp! They must live together in the cave: the shrimp cleans the eel from parisites on its body whilst the eel gives protection.
Nigel @ Two Fish
Check out more critters in the Two Fish Critter Gallery
These long-nose hawkfish are always fun to chase around the underwater plants. Sometimes they will stay and pose for you but its never for very long so you cannot delay taking a picture.
Nigel @ Two Fish
Check out more critters in the Two Fish Critter Gallery
One of our guides just found this 4-6 inch painted frog fish in the shallow reefs in front of the resort. These are very common in Lembeh but this is the first time that we have seen this in Bunaken. We hope he stays around for a bit.
Check out Critters on Flickr for more photos of frog fish.
This must be one of the weirdest critters i these waters. It is called a star gazer, and it was pictured on the slopes of the mainland whilst we were doing some DM training. It literally walked right between us so of course we had to break off the training to take some pictures! It spends most of its time buried in the sand with just its eyes showing, then leaps out to grab an unsuspecting fish that swims too close. It gets its name from “gazing as the stars” whilst buried in the sand.
Check out more critters in the Two Fish Critter Gallery
Celina was diving on one of the reefs on Bunaken when a whale shark was spotted by some other Two Fish guests on the same reef. “I almost cried!” said Celina, since this was a very rare occurance in Bunaken. However, it was just as well she missed it since her two friends, Tomas and Marco, arrived the next day and would have been really upset!
All three friends were on a holiday from their current postings with different French/International aid organsiations in Aceh helping with post-tsunami rebuilding efforts. They really appreciated the slow, relaxing diving with their own dive guide, and liked the friendly atmosphere of the resort and Bunaken Island in general.
They all loved the great visibility and diversity of marine life, as well as the amazing macro life – nudibranchs and mandarin fish were their favourites. Check out Two Fish Critters for an idea of what they did see whilst diving.
Ken is a semi-professional photographer who visited us in Bunaken and Lembeh in Nov 2006. He considers this picture of a pygmy sea horse to be one of his best from his visit, but only of the one’s he has managed to go through so far - he has already posted a number of photos on his web site, but says that after a month’s worth of diving and over 9,000 photos, a lot of work still remains!
He is still trying to catalog his photos, and at the moment has identified 500 different species of sea life from just the one trip in Nov 06. “Absolutely amazing!” he says, and is tentatively planning to return in Nov 07.
Check out his web site on Kilili Photography
Comments Off | 
Critters, Guests | 
Permalink
Posted by twofishblog
You are currently browsing the Two Fish Divers Blog weblog archives for March, 2007.
Save the Whales!
Click here to
sign the petition
|
