Three More Great Dives, Love Potion #9, The Plateau, and Romeo Night Dive January 28, 2023

Love Potion #9 is a beautiful site with overhangs, more great sea fans and a separate pinnacle you can cross over to during the dive. Here's Dennis with our dive briefing chart for the dive:

Donna found an octopus (below). Octopus is behind the cleaner wrasse.

An example of the many overhangs at this site:

Some great sea fans, below:

Some big, beautiful sponges, too. Below:

Our second dive, after second breakfast, was at a site called "The Plateau". It's another gorgeous dive site with breathtaking hard and softcorals and sea fans and lots of fish. We started the dive being greated by a Saade Fish and I enjoyed watching them getting attention from cleaner wrasse. Below:

Look at the tiny cleaner wrasse on the base of his tale and a larger one under his chin, above.

We saw more huge Bumphead Parrotfish but, once again, I didn't get close enough for great pictures, but here's one, below:

Check out the sea fans, hard corals, and soft corals. Below:

We finished our diving for the day with a night dive on "Romeo". Lots of variety with soft corals, anemone shrimp, a red shrimp, a Green Moray, nudibranch, a flat worm and a Hermit Crab. Coral polyps open up to feed at night so they are really cool subjects. I shot macro with my 60 mm Nikon lens.

Hermit Crab, below:

Here's the flatworm:

Here's the nudibranch:

Here's a Feather Star, aka Crinoid:

If you look closely, you can see a crab on this soft coral, below:

Here's the Green Moray I saw:

There were a couple cool, mostly transparent, tiny (maybe 1/4 inch or less) Anemone Shrimp on this anemone:

One final, beautiful striped shrimp. Below: