Ningaloo - a very Good Friday

[alcina]

The conditions were glorious yesterday! Flat seas, no swell, blue skies, hot temperatures, amazing reef activity and almost no current or surge! We got in two 75+ minute dives and wish we could have stayed longer

Got swamped with work when I got back to land so haven't had much time for photos, but here's two to start things off:

A little porcelain crab with eggs - no, we didn't see the eggs until we got back to the computers!

A juvenile yellow boxfish. This guy was being chased around by a larger, older yellow boxfish and it was hilarious to watch him spinning around and about trying to keep an eye on the big guy!

Canon 40D, Canon 100mm macro, Woody, Subal housing & port, Inon strobes
Dive site: Razor's - 13.6m; Lighthouse Bay, Exmouth, Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia

 

[TSandM]

Great porcelain crab picture! Those elegant anemones make such a great backdrop for photographs.

You're making me yearn for warm water . . .

 

[alchemist117]

Lovely. I'm jealous.

 

[Rickg]

A little porcelain crab with eggs - no, we didn't see the eggs until we got back to the computers!


I do so like the crab.

 

[parabolic]

Those are beautiful Kristin. That is the definitive porcelain crab image!
++Ken++

 

[Larry C]

Love the crab! And those little boxfish are soooo cute!

 

[alcina]

Busy, busy, so forgive this trickle of images from Friday!

Tube worm blenny

Pink anemonefish

All gear is the same as above.
Blizzard Ridge - 14m; Lighthouse Bay, Exmouth, Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia

 

[almitywife]

that crab pic is amazing!

i was only watching a doco on christmas island crabs today and realized thats how they store their eggs!

i hope you are planning on submitting that pic to magazine as its stunning

 

[Dr. Doug Ebersole]

Kristin:

Gorgeous stuff. Like everyone above I really liked the crab with eggs. Thanks for sharing.

Doug

 

[parabolic]

More good stuff Kristin!! You don't often see that sabertooth blenny with his dorsal fin erect. Great capture!!

++Ken++