Nice shots!!
BTW - your "Star headed nudi" is a sea star regenerating
& the "red & white nudi" is an arm!
BTW - your "Star headed nudi" is a sea star regenerating
& the "red & white nudi" is an arm!
Flooded my camera
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Since Alcina mentioned it....your Clear Coral is Tunicates.
maractwin
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You've got some nice pictures.
And since you asked for names:
The "Yellow coral" is actually a crinoid (or feather star), hiding amongst some millepora coral.
The "spotted fish" is a spotted hawkfish.
"Little fish 3" is a pixy hawkfish.
The "Hornet" fish is a "Coronet" fish (as in very much like a trumpet fish).
"Green coral" is a sponge.
"Giant oyster 2" is a giant clam, Tridacna maxima.
And since you asked for names:
The "Yellow coral" is actually a crinoid (or feather star), hiding amongst some millepora coral.
The "spotted fish" is a spotted hawkfish.
"Little fish 3" is a pixy hawkfish.
The "Hornet" fish is a "Coronet" fish (as in very much like a trumpet fish).
"Green coral" is a sponge.
"Giant oyster 2" is a giant clam, Tridacna maxima.
Sorry I forgot to answer this before.... yes, we used reef hooks. Personally, I only used it on the corners where we hooked in to watch the pelagics (like the sharks) circling around. There it was easy to find a rock or dead coral to hook to.Gilligan:
My little point~n~shoot optio with built in little flash is really only good for macro shots, so I have to be close to the subject and holding still. I did think of using the reef hook to hold position, but was unable to assure myself that I could hook in without hurting something once on the reef where even the dead coral has live stuff growing on or crawling across it. Sometimes it was possible to use a finger to hold position, but often even that was impossible due to no available place to touch without squishing something! Most of the time I would just drift along looking at stuff. If I saw something I wanted to see or explore more closely, I was usually able to fin to hold position against the current without any difficulty.
Needless to say, I didn't get pictures of a lot of stuff and many of the pictures I took anyway didn't turn out. But I'm actually not disappointed. I don't dive to take pictures, I dive to experience and see the life and structure. I take pictures to share pieces of that experience with folks who weren't there
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