Meeting up with Robert Delfs in Bali |
The dock at Makassar |
Amphiprion clarkii clownfish in an Entacmaea quadricolor bulb tentacle anemone (Goabesar, Farondi) |
Bigfin ReefSquid, (Sepioteuthis lessoniana) at night (Goabesar, Farondi), with male reproductive organ held high. |
Broadclub cuttlefish (Sepia latimanus) at night. (Slam Malam, Jef Pele) |
Bicolor blenny (Ecsenuis bicolor) (Gunun Laut, Jilliet) |
Pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus denise) on a red gorgonian fan (Annella sp.) (Ikan Muda, Gamfi Street) |
A pair of pygmy seahorses on Muricella fan (Hippocampus bargibanti) (Ikan Muda, Gamfi Street) |
Orangutan crab (Achaeus japonicus) on a Plerogyra sinuosa bubble coral (Plerogyra sinuosa) infected with parasitic flatworms (Waminoa sp.). (Dinding Selatan, Sel Pelee) |
A clown mantis shrimp (Odontodactylus scyallarus) (Dinding Selatan, Sel Pelee) |
Coleman shrimp (Periclimenes colemani) on a fire urchin (Asthenosoma varium) (Dinding Selatan, Sel Pelee) |
2 Coleman shrimps (Periclimenes colemani) and a Urchin zebra crab (Zebrida adamsii) on a fire urchin (Asthenosoma varium) (Dinding Selatan, Sel Pelee) |
A Dasycaris zanzibarica commensal shrimp on a Cirripathes sp. sea whip coral (Sel Pelee Bay - Exploration) |
Eye, spiracle, and tassels of a tasselled wobbegong shark (Eucrossorhinus dasypogon) (Sel Pelee Bay - Exploration) |
Harlequin crab (Lissocarcinus orbicularis) on a leopard sea cucumber (Bohadschia argus). This crab is really, really tiny. (Sel Pelee Bay - Exploration) |
Beautiful dusk in Rajah Ampat |
A view of the Pindito from high above |
A school of gold-spotted sweetlips (Plectorhinchus flavomaculatus). (Jamur Tengah, Wajag) |
Ten hut! Top gun appears to be barking out orders in this school of gold-spotted sweetlips (Plectorhinchus flavomaculatus). (Jamur Tengah, Wajag) |
Sheer rock faces grace many of the rock islands here |
Two common lionfish (Pterois volitans). (Dinding Selatan, Sel Pelee) |
Glomerate tree coral (Dendronephthya sp.). (Dinding Selatan, Sel Pelee)
Wow, I love these! |
Two flatworms (Maiazoon orsaki) battle it out -- they're either fighting or mating. In the case of flatworms, mating becomes fighting. It takes more energy to make eggs, so the flatworm tries to impregnate the other without being impregnated itself. This results in penis-fencing . The organism in question seems to have two penises, which is possible in some species of flatworms.(Tempat Mandarin, Wafak) |
Small yellow fish in the vent of giant clam (Tridacna gigas). Divaricate tree coral (Dendronephthya sp.) to right of the clam and gorgonians in the right rear. The orange and yellow fish are (Pseudanthias sp.) (Acropora formosa) stony coral in left, rear. (Kri Island) |
In the foreground is the mother of all giant clams (Tridacna gigas) with its vent slit at the bottom of the photo and the siphon just under the cream colored leather coral. The iridiscent patches in the mantle consist of zooxanthellae (dinoflagellate algae). They are rather sparse in this specimen so it probably gets most of its nutrition by filter-feeding with the vent and siphon. (Kri Island) |
Starting at the left edge, (Sarcophyton elegans). Coming counterclockwise, digitate leather coral (Sinularia sp.2). In the middle at the bottom, (Capnella imbricata), then more digitate leather coral. Most everything else is (Sinularia flexibilis). (Mike's Point) |
Gorgonians (Melithaea sp.) and table corals (Acropora hyacinthus). (Mike's Point) |
The bridge back to the village |
