Well, it’s nearly Golden Week and we’re getting quite a few Japanese divers visiting us during their time of national holidays. Johan has been tasked with a goby mission, and he’s doing pretty well!
In a few days he’s found Hairy Gobies, 5 lined gobies, Fire Dart Gobies, Purple Dart Gobies, Okinawa Gobies, Panda Goby and loads of Shrimp Gobies.
Sometimes you go through life in Lembeh and a critter evades you for what seems to be forever. For me the unicorn has been the Bumblebee Shrimp. I could have seen it long ago but was busy with other things / camera not ready, too lazy to go – The Read more…
Today i was lucky enough to find this little critter: Gnathophyllides mineri – the Urchin Bumblebee Shrimp. It grows to about 1 cm in size and lives on the Cake Urchin (Tripneustes gratilla). The cake urchin has spines and sticky arms – which collect rocks, leaves and pieces of plastic or Read more…