Sunday, March 19, 2023

Two Great dives at Cape Kri and a night dive at Sabokren January 25, 2023

Cape Kri is a wonderful dive site, so we dived it twice. It has a big school of beautiful Sweetlips on a large coral head at 110 ft, near the depth limit for our nitrox mix. Had a huge school of Mobula rays pass overhead, too far above to photo..Alvin pointed out a huge 60 lb plus grouper parked in a sea fan. I got a couple of shots of it parked back in a cave. Had a couple very nice Napoleon Wrasse encounters, it's easy to remember the sign for Napoleon Wrasse, it's a salute! Saw many Chevron Barracuda as well. Below: Stampede! Not sure the species, may be a Fusilier of some kind.
Below: Sweetlips and friends
Emperor Angelfish in Lettuce Coral, below:
Below, Nemo's cousins, False Clownfish:
Huge, 60 lb plus grouper:
Below: Clown Triggerfish
Below: Magnificent Napoleon Wrasse, about 4 ft long, with Fusiliers
Scrawled Filefish, below:
Below, another beautiful Six Banded Angelfish
Blacktipped Reefshark visited occaisionally, usually too far to photo, below:
White Tipped Reefshark, below:
Donna at work with her GoPro, with Dorothy and Napoleon Wrasse, below:
Beautiful invertebrate life with a peeking Slender Grouper, below:
Above: So many fish, with Chevron Barracuda Our next dive was a night dive at Sabokren. Saw Cuttlefish, a couple unidentified fish, one of which is 1/2 head, squid, crabs, a beautiful snail, and a sea horse. My night photos are all taken with my Nikon 100 mm Macro lens (my day photos were all taken with my Tokina 10-17mm Fisheye wide angle lens). Cowfish, below:
Below: Waspfish, around 3 inches long
Nudibranch, below:
Below: Fire Urchin, well named if you ever have the misfortune to come in contact with one!
Three kinds of crab and some kind of small fish:
Had nice encounters with a couple of Cuttlefish, a few inches long, below:
Fun with a couple of small squid:
These cool little fish was only 2 -3 inches long and half of it is head! Below:
An Anemone in the sand:
A cool seahorse, about 4 inches long, below:
Beautiful Snail, about 4 inches long:

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