my share of Sekudu 21 June 05

Sekudu trip on last Tuesday was really good, besides the ehhhh... stiliger smaragdinus (?)and polybranchia something that set off all the "What???""What colour", "how big??".. "is it a jorunna? i dun want a jorunna!" , "no!", "it's a discodoris then! I dun want too!" "No la, he knows what he is looking at!" shouting of Guess what IT is game across the shore .. confusing as it may seemed, I guess it contributed to the fun and kept us awake in the wee hours of Tuesday morning...

Other things that we saw include really thin pipefishes, a carpet eel blenny that swam past me and was almost dismissed as another pipefish, two white nudibranches that were not filmed nor photographed on this walk, due to too many stuff, too little time and the rain. A knobbly sea star that Tom almost stepped on, these tiny fishes that looked like some juvenile of some butterflyfish, sea spider, toadfishes, squid, a fish that looked like a spiny leaf fish, but managed to get away from us .. what else what else.. old people should learn to blog as soon as they can instead of leaving it till one week later....

what i have learned/realised I need to learn on my first real WildFilm walk:
1) How to talk with the torch in your mouth and avoid your drool falling on the equipment or the videoman (still trying)
2) Lighting assistant is not easy, especially with the torch in your mouth