Happy New Year's Eve Day Ningaloo style

[alcina]

First photos for a while here...perhaps the first of many more for the new year.

Found this good sized cuttlefish on a dive the other day. He was fairly cooperative, though wouldn't let me as close as I would have liked in some shots. He kept showing me his siphon...not sure what's up with that :11: Here are two G rated ones...

Enjoy

 

[nauifins73]

Great photos - but truly a face only a Mother could love.

Becky

 

[Jetwrench]

Nice shots! Looks like you got close enough. As for the siphon, mother nature isn't always G rated

 

[justleesa]

Very cool! I wish we had them on this side of the island. Although I did see a teeny tiny one while on the line yesterday....must've been lost.

 

[SeaYoda]

Nice pics - happy New Year's eve day to you, it is still an hour away here. Isn't SB great I can even time travel .

 

[alcina]

I'm hoping to find a mating group again this year...found one last year and ran out of video tape on the dive watching them! Didn't have my still camera with me on that one...

 

[Dee]

I love the 'sparkely' colors these guys have.

Thanks for getting the New Year started properly!

 

[Scubapauly]

Great pictures. I could spend hours watching cuttlefish and the rest of the cephlapod [spelling] family.

 

[ssra30]

I'm hoping to find a mating group again this year...found one last year and ran out of video tape on the dive watching them! Didn't have my still camera with me on that one...

I saw a mating pair once in Burma in February last year. On that trip, I saw cuttlefish courting each other just about everyday but only saw one mating pair. Hopefully I will see something similar again in Feb when I plan to go to Burma again (hopefully).

Hopefully I will get to see Ningaloo soon too

 

[alcina]

I could spend hours watching cuttlefish and the rest of the cephlapod [spelling] family.

I often do