Ningaloo 03 January 2009 - nudibranchs

[alcina]

Well, 2009 has started with a few dives so that's already an improvement over 2008! The nudibranchs are everywhere again and we have even found TWO new (to us) ones in the last couple of days. Can't beat that.

Here's a little selection from the zillions we saw:

01 - Chromodoris fidelis

02 - Janolus sp

03 - Tambja morosa

04 - Cadlinella ornatissima

05 - mating & laying Chromodoris geometricas

06 - hungry Moridilla brockii

07 - Flabellina exoptata

08 - Gymnodoris rubropapulosa

09 - juvenile Spanish Dancer Hexabranchus sanguineus

10 - our first new guy: Phestilla melanobranchia

11 - our second new guy thanks to my dive bud, Mary: Favorinus tsuruganus

That's a good start There are more in my Flickr stuff (KristinAnderson - sorry, new to it and don't know how to link it up) and in my blog

More photos from the dives coming soon ... enjoy!

 

[AndyT]

Great pics !!! The Gymnodoris is great - love the orange.

 

[alcina]

Andy - I don't know how to have people find me there LOL but KristinAnderson is my name thing that comes up there

does this work? http://www.flickr.com/photos/21149680@N00/

 

[AndyT]

Found it - I was just being particularly thick this morning !!!

Link works OK too.

 

[TSandM]

Gorgeous pictures! I love nudibranchs -- I think they are proof that God has a sense of humor.

I was amazed at DEMA, to run into somebody who obviously thinks of them the way I do -- She had done beautiful enamel and glass jewelry in the shapes of a variety of nudis! (Needless to say, I now own nudibranch earrings.)

 

[SterlingDiver]

Very, very nice.

I wish I was diving somewhere warm right now. We have had over 30" of snow in the last three weeks.

Dave

 

[fisheyeview]

Really nice shots Kristin. Why don't you wrangle up some of those nudis and send them my way.

 

[diveChiq]

amazing shots. lovely to see such different varieties from what we have here in new zealand.

 

[DennisW]

Beautiful.

 

[xariatay]

Beautiful nudibranches!