Close-up photos of a tiny blue-ringed octopus in the Lembeh Strait, together with the story of how our guide found it: My guide extended his (bare) finger and gently tapped on a small protuberance on the rock below us. The thing was no bigger than my thumb.
Feb 08, 2011 | Categories: thePhotoTourist, Underwater | Tags: blue, blue ring, blue ring octopus, blue rings, blue-ringed, blue-ringed octopus, dive, diving, Indonesia, Lembeh, North Sulawesi, octopus, ring, scuba, scuba diving, Sulawesi, the Lembeh Strait, u/w, Underwater | Leave A Comment »
Underwater photo of a pink anemonefish in a purple anemone. The pink anemonefish is probably my favorite, and I haven’t before seen one in a bright purple anemone.
Feb 04, 2011 | Categories: thePhotoTourist, Underwater | Tags: anemone, anemonefish, Bunaken, Bunaken National Park, Bunaken Park, clownfish, dive, diving, fish, Indonesia, North Sulawesi, pink, pink anemonefish, purple, scuba, scuba dive, Siladen, Siladen Island, Sulawesi, Underwater | Leave A Comment »
(Three underwater photos of the stargazer, an ambush predator fish that buries itself in the sand at night, waiting to ambush small fish swimming past.) The story of finding and feeding a stargazer on a night dive.
Feb 02, 2011 | Categories: thePhotoTourist, Underwater | Tags: bottom, death mask, diving, face, feeding, fish, Indonesia, Lembeh, Lembeh Resort, Lembeh Strait, mask, night, night dive, North Sulawesi, predator, sand, sandy bottom, scuba, scuba diving, star gazer, stargazer, Sulawesi, ugly, Underwater | Leave A Comment »
(Two photos of mandarinfish mating.) The Photo Tourist just returned from our annual “big trip;” this is the first post of a probable series from Indonesia. Description of a sunset dive to photograph mating mandarinfish at Lembeh Resort.
Jan 31, 2011 | Categories: thePhotoTourist, Underwater | Tags: coupling, diving, Indonesia, Lembeh, Lembeh Resort, Lembeh Strait, mandarin, mandarin dragonet, mandarin fish, mandarinfish, mate, mating, mating dance, North Sulawesi, pairing, scuba, Underwater | 1 Comment »
This is a small Caribbean reef (spiny) lobster I found while diving with Dreamtime Dive Center in Mahahual, Mexico — the small town near the cruise ship port called Costa Maya. The dive center stands right on the beautiful white sand beach that runs the length of the town. Highly recommended; check them out if you ever get there.
Apr 12, 2010 | Categories: Underwater | Tags: Caribbean, coral, Costa Maya, cruise, cruise critic, cruisecritic, dive, diving, Dreamtime, Dreamtime Dive Center, Dreamtime Dive Centre, Dreamtime Dive Resort, fire coral, flames, Holland America, Holland America Line, lobster, Mahahual, Mexico, port, reef, Ryndam, scuba, scuba board, ScubaBoard, spiny lobster, the flames, trip advisor, tripadvisor, Underwater | Leave A Comment »
