Three Great dives at Black Rocks, Andiamo, and Candy Store with Raja Laut in Raja Ampat January 31, 2023

I enjoyed great dives at Black Rocks, Andiamo, and Candy Store on January 31, this was the next to last day for diving on Donna and my 17 day diving trip in Raja Ampat on the dive boat Raja Laut. This dive included huge, beautiful sea fans, Sea Anemones with Anemone Fish, Barramundi (I saw more of these big beautiful type of sea bass, by far, than on all my other South Pacific dive trips, combined), snapper, Butterfly fish, Puffers, Green Moray, Yellowtail Fusiliers, Goatfish, Sweetlips, Coral (aka Leopard) Grouper, Longfin Batfish, and a very patient Scorpionfish. Beautiful pair of Panda Butterflyfish. Below:

Several of the magnificent sea fans found on this site:

Sea Anemones and their Anemone Fish, below:

Below, a stunning yellow sponge:

Coral Trout, aka Leopard Grouper, below:

Donna shooting video of Big Eyed Snapper. Below:

Above, we got Dennis to use my camera to take a picture of us with the Big Eyed Snapper school. Below, Dennis shoots the Beig Eyed Snapper school:

Seascape:

Longfin Batfish:

We enjoyed seeing and photographing a very patient Scorpionfish. Here's Donna shooting GoPro video of it. Can you see it? It's right on top of the coral rock in front of her, in the foreground:

Above and below, here's closer photos of the Scorpionfish.

Our second dive was at a site called Andiamo. It's full of amazing rich life, both fish and invertebrate. Look at the sealife all around this Lionfish (below):

Above, two cleaner wrasse wait for me to move on so that their next fish customer will come to them.

Below, look at the rich, dense, invertebrate life:

Seascapes:

Below, Sea Fan, cool sponge, Clownfish in their Anemone: