Day 3 of the liveaboard, another early rise to a beautiful sky
We are still at the Phi Phi Islands
Our schedule for today
Scorpionfish napping
That’s the first time I see one of these shells
Orange-spotted Spinefoot (aka Golden Rabbitfish)
I would never have guessed but these too are sea cucumbers, the Synaptula Lamperti
Batfish
Yellow Snappers?
Argh, the yellow fish again
The Pink Skunk Clownfish
Nudibranch
Soft coral, I suddenly realize I don’t know anything about these apart from that they’re soft
First time I see these being green, maybe they’re angry!
Crinoids
We’re now at our second dive site, the King Cruiser Wreck. Unfortunately the visibility sucks big time and there are more and more jellyfish popping up, seemingly out of nowhere. I hate them with a passion, it takes all the joy out of diving because you are constantly trying to avoid bumping into one
Soft coral growing on the wreck, very shortly after this photo it just got completely out of hand with the jellyfish, they were everywhere. I ended my dive and went to the surface (after safety stop), everybody was scrambling to get out of the water
Dinghies frantically picking up divers and bringing them back to their boats
I mean look at that! There were soooo many of them. Some of the divers got stung by them
And they’re big!
Third dive, at Shark Point, soft coral dancing with the currents
I find these fascinating to look at
I wonder what determines the colour of these corals, I’ve seen them in red/pink/purple/yellow and they all seem identical bar their colour
This one kept watching my every move, I wonder if she was defending her territory?
Sea Cucumber again
Some fishes in red coral
Big purple anemone
Scorpionfish
Moray Eel
Bye Shark Point!
Nudibranch at Koh Doc Mai
Brilliant photos again – I especially like the fishes in red coral.
The colours of the coral are determined by the types of algae that grow upon them.
But why would red algae not grow on the seemingly identical white stalk that pink algea grow on?