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Photo Archive: January, 2009

What a fantastic pattern! Animals like these remind me of what I imagined colorful tropical fish and coral reefs to be like as a kid. I’m fairly confident on the fish id on this one, counting 4 lateral blue lines and a dusky pattern on the belly, so according to Randall et al., it’s a Blue-stripe Snapper [...]

Sometimes fish identification can be hard. I now own two different books on the subject and consult fishbase online, but it can still be difficult to even narrow. In this case, I can see one gill slit, big eyes and a yellow dorsal fin (cut off). I originally thought it’s a soldierfish but had to [...]

This species actually took me a while to identify and white still not 100% sure, I think it’s a female Scalefin Anthias , which according to the Australian Museum, range from orange to yellow and are different in physical appearance to the males. The dorsal fin has relatively coarse scaling though it’s not visible on [...]

This is one of the most unusual photos I took during our new year’s trip to the Coral Sea and I’m glad it turned out sharp.
What you are looking at is the leathery skin of an Ananas Sea Cucumber . These are abundant in the Coral Sea and we’ve seen them on pretty much every [...]

The Cod Hole was the single best photo dive I have done this year, hands down. Ok, given there are a few days left in 2009 to improve on this, but it had everything big and small you could wish for, including Potato Cod , Bass , Anthias , Gorgonians, Seahorses , Surgeonfish , Unicornfish [...]

So far, I haven’t gotten lucky enough to be able do fish portrait with my new gear very often. Usually, I am either in the wrong place, they are too far away, too shy, or I have the wrong lens on. That was different with the Red Bass at the Cod Hole, Ribbon Reefs. [...]

On the last day of our recent trip to the Barrier Reef on board Spirit of Freedom, we dived a site called Snake Pit which is located west of Lizard Island. Despite the name, we had very little sea snake turn out and decided to venture off looking for macro life instead.
Snake pit has several [...]

From time to time when you go diving, you see something new you have never encountered before or even remotely contemplated existing. This was the case when I saw this little stunner which according to “Coral Reef Fishes, Indo Pacific and Carribean, Ewald Lieske, Robert Myers, 2001″ is likely a Variegated Lizardfish , hanging out [...]

I recently returned from a 4-day trip to the Great Barrier Reef, aboard Spirit Of Freedom. Where do I start? It is an excellent boat, everything from the spacy cabins, generously laid out dive deck to the good food and professional crew makes diving an easy and fun experience. Definitely the best liveaboard style dive [...]

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  (August 15, 2010 10:58pm by Simon)
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