LAST DIVES OF THE TRIP . . . 27 MAY 2016
Today is my last day diving; I did all four dives. DIVE #1 The map board for today; we are starting our way back to Bali Dive brief board for Santonda Island where we did all the dives at various sites. The first one was called Black Magic Rock. We've seen these before: A granulated sea star, cushion sea star (Choriaster granulatus)
	A ribbon eel . . .
. . . I haven't yet identified A rather large Blue linckia star fish, Blue sea star (Linckia laevigata) A very beautiful, but bleached (dead) large round plate coral of the stag horn type
	The tomato clown fish
(Amphiprion frenatus) More bleached stag horn coral Notice there's still an abundance of small fish, but the algae that they depend upon for food is not present on this coral. In addition to the bleaching, we also saw evidence of dynamite fishing (fishermen drop sticks of dynamite on the reef, blowing up parts of it and stunning/killing the fish so they float to the surface and can be more easily swept up into nets. TAKE A HIKE! We went ashore on the island to hike a bit and to see a large freshwater lake that had formed in a caldera, just as in Palau, but there are no jellyfish in this lake. (You can see Neal's trip to JELLYFISH LAKE HERE). The steps leading up and over to the lake Luke was the only one to get into the water there. He said it was warm. BACK IN THE [SALT]WATER . . . DIVE #2 The second dive site for the day Red tooth trigger fish (Odonus niger Lobsters. Not the first or the only, but these were in the best location to take a photograph. DIVE #3 Dive brief board for DIVE #3 and #4, the NIGHT DIVE The ship as she sailed most of the time . . . . . . using a diesel motor, not sails A much better look at a Stargazer (Uranoscopus sp) which hides itself in the sand on the sea floor This fish is a classic ambush predator and feeds on small reef fish that swim near. Easiest found at night, some divers say it is easy to identify as it looks like a little old man's face gazing up from the sand. 27 MAY - NIGHT DIVE A yet-to-be-identified (by me) small crab in the sand on the sea floor Striped puffer (Arothron manilensis) White-spotted hermit crab (Dardanus megistos)

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