8-21 Maui pics

[Gilligan]

This will be my last post for 4 or 5 weeks.
Typhoon season permitting, I'm off to the Philippines for about a month of diving plus a week in Okinawa.

Fireworm

Snowflake Eel

Frogfish
This critter was all black a few weeks ago.
He changed locations by a few feet.
Guess he changed colors to suit his new spot.

 

[sasscuba]

Awesome pics again!!! Love the fireworm pic..know why? I grabbed a wreck once exiting and grabbed one with the whole palm of my hand. Wow did that hurt! Forgot my gloves that dive...doh!

 

[Jcsgt]

Nice, Gilligan, especially the eel.

 

[AUTiger]

Good diving on the trip. I look forward to your posts when you return!

David

 

[DennisW]

As always nice pictures.

Sass, All it did was hurt? You are a lucky boy. Those things can nearly kill you. Walter has a really scary story about a Fireworm (aka Bristleworm).

 

[justleesa]

Gilligan...that is a unique looking frogfish...would you say that is a wound /scar (cut behind head) or just a different species that usual?

Looking again...it has a big sail on it's head instead of the hump...have you asked around about it?

 

[Gilligan]

Gilligan...that is a unique looking frogfish...would you say that is a wound /scar (cut behind head) or just a different species that usual?

Looking again...it has a big sail on it's head instead of the hump...have you asked around about it?

Not sure but I am almost positive it is the same one from 7-16 but moved a few feet away. This was it on 7-16 when it was all black:

 

[justleesa]

hmmmm....I don't know what I'm seeing - but it looks like a totally different species to me...the tail is different, the front is sloaped different, the sail instead of the bump....interesting