Two weeks in Weda Bay, Halmahera, east of Sulawesi, Indonesia. With
Rob's dive center (only one on the island) where we were the next to last divers since a Chinese mining company bribed their way to an open-pit mining permit neighboring the premises. In spite of the havock, a very good diving trip, although not quite in the same class as Raja Ampat. April 2011
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Pygmy seahorse (
Hippocampus denise)
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Please don't eat me
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hiding featherstar (
Comanthus parvicirrus)
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juvenile Titan triggerfish (
Balistoides viride...
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Giant shrimpgoby (
Amblyeleotris fontanesii)
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Common reef squid (
Sepioteuthis lessoniana)
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A beautiful tube worm (
Sabellidae)
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Goniobranchus coi
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The sea-squirt
Clavelina robusta
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Springer's demoiselle (
Chrysiptera springeri)
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Western clown anemonefish (
Amphiprion ocellari...
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Clown blenny (
Ecsenius axelrodi)
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Halgerda batangas
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Tailspot blenny (
Ecsenius stigmatura)
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Featherstar (
Comanthus parvicirrus) in sponge
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Corals and featherstars
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fan coral
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Bubble coral shrimp (
Vir colemani)
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Pink anemonefish (
Amphiprion perideraion) in b...
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Seapen porcelain crab (
Porcellanella triloba)
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A cuttlefish with its prey (a rabbitfish)
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The seasnail Articular harp (
Harpa articularis)
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swimming
Harpa articularis
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Steina working on a pygmy seahorse shot
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Wally's squat lobster (
Lauriea siagiani)
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Schooling bannerfish (
Heniochus diphreutes)
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Latticed sandperch (
Parapercis clathrata)
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juvenile Golden damsel (
Amblyglyphidodon aureu...
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Threadfin hawkfish (
Cirrhitichthys aprinus)
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Spinecheek anemonefish (
Premnas biaculeatus)
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commensal shrimp (
Ancylomenes tosaensis)
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commensal shrimp (
Ancylomenes tosaensis)
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slipper lobster (
Parribacus sp)
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Conical spider crab (
Xenocarcinus conicus)
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featherstar (
Anneissia bennetti)
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Scissor-tailed fusilier (
Caesio Caerulaurea)
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Pixy hawkfish (
Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus)
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pygmy seahorse (
Hippocampus bargibanti)
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A sponge, probably
Haliclona (Reniera) fascige...
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Rainford's goby (
Amblygobius rainfordi)
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Close-up of soft coral (
Dendronephthya sp)
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Brittle-star in coral
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soft coral (
Xeniidae)
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Sea squirt (
Herdmania sp)
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Chromodoris willani
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Coral close-up
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Juvenile damsel in a featherstar
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Crinoid squat lobster (
Allogalathea elegans)
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Anemone porcelain crab (
Neopetrolisthes macula...
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Anemone porcelain crab (
Neopetrolisthes macula...
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Tube anemone (
Cerianthus sp)
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Threadfin Trevally (
Alectis indica)
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Goby on coral
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Featherstars in fan coral
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Coral close-up
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Fire dartfish (
Nemateleotris magnifica)
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Squarespot anthias (
Pseudanthias pleurotaenia)
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Camouflaged goby in fan coral
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Coral with tiny goby
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Coral close-up
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Yellowstriped anthias (
Pseudanthias tuka)
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Venus girdle (
Cestum veneris)
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Venus girdle (
Cestum veneris)
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Decorated dartfish (
Nemateleotris decora)
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The sea-squirt
Clavelina diminuta
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A plankton-feeder living on a coral
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A bleached fan coral
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Vagabond butterflyfish (
Chaetodon vagabundus)
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Banded boxer shrimp (
Stenopus hispidus)
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Variable thorny oyster (
Spondylus varius)
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An unidendified pygmy pipefish (
Corythoichthys...
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Christmastree tubeworm (
Spirobranchus giganteu...
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Banded sole (
Soleichthys heterohinos)
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Black-bar chromis (
Chromis retrofasciata)
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Midnight snapper (
Macolor macularis)
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Bicolor parrotfish (
Cetoscarus bicolor), female
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Stocky anthias (
Pseudanthias hypselosoma)
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Target prawn goby (
Cryptocentrus strigilliceps...
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Reticulated dascyllus (
Dascyllus reticulatus)
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Reticulidia fungia
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Twinspot cardinalfish (
Archamia biguttata)
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Blue-girdled angelfish (
Pomacanthus xanthometo...
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Delicate tube worm (
Filogranella elatensis)
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Moon snail (
Tanea undulata)
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juvenile Giant puffer (
Arothron stellatus)
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Bobbitt worm (
Eunice aphroditois)
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Bobbitt worm (
Eunice aphroditois)
