Scuba Diving - Bolo North

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Scuba Diving - Bolo North

Josh, Edwin, and I went to Bolo North for our second dive. I got to see several interesting things that I'd never seen before while underwater.

The first was a nudibranch, or sea slug, that was yellow, white, and black and about the length of my thumb. I managed to get up extremely close to it so that I could use the macro function on my camera. After a bit of research I have been able to determine that I was observing an Chromodoris magnifica.

For more info on nudibranches:
http://www.medslugs.de/E/mssmain.htm
http://www.seaslugforum.net/
http://www.sergeyphoto.com/underwater/nudibranchs.html

The next interesting wildlife that I was into contact was with a pair of shell-less hermit crabs or something of that nature. I was busy snapping photos of an anemone fish during my safety stop when I happened to look down and see these two hermit crab like creatures staring back up at me. It actually scared me for a moment because I had to idea what they were and didn't expect to see anything watching me. I also managed to get a few upclose photos of these creatures. Unfortunately, the waves were a bit strong so getting my camera steady was rather difficult....hence, only a few photos of these interesting little creatures.

For more pictures go to: http://picasaweb.google.com/kdupak/16May2009BoloNorth?feat=directlink

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Photos

Anemonefish
This is a baby anemonefish

Josh and Edwin
Edwin pretending to attack Josh

Nudibranch
Chromodoris magnifica

Comments

[judy]

beautiful pictures. i am also thinking about going to okinawa for diving. do you have any good dive shop to recommend? around how much is it per dive? thanks