What are buddies for ... ? =)
24 July 05, afternoon, a good time to try and revisit Pulau Salu.
The boatman had said before that we need to dive Pulau Salu on high tides, and the place is prone to stronger currents. Pulau Hantu vis was terrible in the earlier part of the month, so we wanted to visit Pulau Salu and see if it was any different.. The last time that we were there, the visibility was about 6-7m, which is actually better than what we ever had at Pulau Hantu ..
But this time round, it is just about 2m blurry greenish visibility, just like what we had at Pulau Hantu earlier on, save that there was no strong currents...
Ten divers, none of us saw anything fantastic, few fish, lots of hard and soft corals, but cannot really appreciate due to the visibility ... I was diving alone, as my buddy had lost me within five minutes of descent, and I was only in 2m depth, trying very hard to get my way into deeper depths to find more stuff...
Then, I saw a piece of rag-looking thing waving in the water, and went to take a closer look. It turned out to be a huge seahare!!
No, make it TWO!!!!!
I have seen nudibranch Ribescia Tyroni doing tailgating, but I didnt know seahares are capable of that as well... and it is not just "hooking" onto the tail, it is literally resting its head on the poor buddy!! hohohoho... I spent at least half an hour with these two fellas, snapping away, trying to get decent pictures through the murky 1-2m visibility ...
Dont believe it is big? Look at this!
And I was officially declared the ONLY one who saw something GOOD!!! Wooooohohohohohohohooooo...!!!!!
The boatman had said before that we need to dive Pulau Salu on high tides, and the place is prone to stronger currents. Pulau Hantu vis was terrible in the earlier part of the month, so we wanted to visit Pulau Salu and see if it was any different.. The last time that we were there, the visibility was about 6-7m, which is actually better than what we ever had at Pulau Hantu ..
But this time round, it is just about 2m blurry greenish visibility, just like what we had at Pulau Hantu earlier on, save that there was no strong currents...
Ten divers, none of us saw anything fantastic, few fish, lots of hard and soft corals, but cannot really appreciate due to the visibility ... I was diving alone, as my buddy had lost me within five minutes of descent, and I was only in 2m depth, trying very hard to get my way into deeper depths to find more stuff...
Then, I saw a piece of rag-looking thing waving in the water, and went to take a closer look. It turned out to be a huge seahare!!
No, make it TWO!!!!!
I have seen nudibranch Ribescia Tyroni doing tailgating, but I didnt know seahares are capable of that as well... and it is not just "hooking" onto the tail, it is literally resting its head on the poor buddy!! hohohoho... I spent at least half an hour with these two fellas, snapping away, trying to get decent pictures through the murky 1-2m visibility ...
Dont believe it is big? Look at this!
And I was officially declared the ONLY one who saw something GOOD!!! Wooooohohohohohohohooooo...!!!!!
4 Comments:
Tailgating?
Looks like mating to me...
Good shots!
mating?? hmm! then they last pretty long, at least half an hour, hohoho ... maybe it is rape, cos the one underneath was walking throughout the half an hour!!! hahahahhaa.....
Sea hares are hermaphrodites, so they sometimes form a mating chain as they mate and get mated with at the same time.
Is that cool or what?
TWO METRES?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Me and TL just dived today at Kusu and Hantu... and vis was 20-30... CENTIMETRES at Kusu and ~40cm at Hantu. Saint John's is also about 30-40cm. Same goes for Raffles Lighthouse.
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