MORE DIVING 23 MAY 2016
Dive gear hanging drying, ready for use Sunrise . . . . . . we seldom see a sunset as we are setting off on the night dive and all the cameras are out of the way at the back of the tender until we enter the water, when they are handed to us. The boat has moved again . . . Skipped first two dives again and started with DIVE #3 Dive plan for Light House, at Gili Lawa Laut both DIVE #3 . . . . . . and the night dive at the same location. Clark's anemone fish or the yellowtail clown fish (Amphiprion clarkii) You'll see that some anemone fish species have color variations based on geographic location, gender and host anemone. They don't all look like "Nemo"
Blue-girdled angelfish (Pomacanthus navarchus)
Banana nudibranch (Aegires minor) Luke shows what happens when a diver sheds too much lead at one time. He had to improvise with chunks of broken coral on his reef hook. As time passed and he used the air in his tank he got lighter and lighter and had to scavenge larger and heavier pieces of coral. Beautiful plate coral in shallow water with UNIDENTIFIED small yellow-bodied fish with a black dorsal fin and a black vertical stripe or bar
	23 MAY NIGHT DIVE Leaf scorpion fish, white variety (Taenianotus Triacanthus)
We saw a lot of these at most of the dive sites. A small crab I have yet to identify I'm not certain of this one either. It may be a juvenile or some variation of a scorpion fish. Members of the large scorpion fish family live on the sea floor where they tend to blend in with their surroundings to hunt by ambush. These sit-and-wait predators adopt such effective camouflage that many of their meals likely never knew what hit them. Scorpion fish are also armed with venomous spines, which can deliver a dangerous sting to any animal that tries to make prey of this predator. Broadclub cuttlefish (Sepia latimanus) On a side note I saw A LOT of CORAL BLEACHING on this trip. Rob said he noticed quite a difference in the two years he's been diving Flores Sea. BOB ANDERSON: I'm always amazed at how well Neal handles the little dive surprises! Experience sure shows . . . . Even with the flash problems the pictures are great.

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