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JULY 5, 2009: WING BEACH DIVE

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Heading down into "The Canyon."
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Heading down into "The Canyon."

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From Wing Beach Dive, July 5, 2009

  • Heading down into "The Canyon."
  • Two Moorish idols (Zanclus cornutus) look on as their realm is invaded by the bubbling aliens.
  • John and Dawn float above the whip coral. Does sound kinky, doesn't it!?
  • Look closely and you can see some Cornetfish (Fistularia commersonnii) in front of Ron.
  • "Anyone want to do some bowling?"
  • John and Dawn approach an anemone with a pair of Clark's anemonefish (Amphiprion clarksi).
  • Gee, Mary: You MUST be getting close to deco! Maybe if we become creative enough when 'narked we can do some ART DECO!
  • Twinspot snapper (Lutjanus bohar). Gee, Ron: That almost looks like it HURT!
  • As I was all engrossed in attempting to get a great shot of this Banded cleaner shrimp (Stenopus hispidus, also called Banded coral shrimp), I noticed some movement just to my right.....
  • ...and right there in the shadows (he is illuminated here by my flash) was this Giant moray (Gymnothorax javanicus)!
  • Here you see the shrimp from 2 photos back (to your left) and the moray from the last photo. There was a third shrimp to your right from the furthest right shrimp you can see here. These are among the many shots which make a photographer wish for a dome port. Even with my 28mm wide angle, a flat port just did not allow me to be close enough to get the dramatic lighting that this scene needs.
  • The landscape at Wing is, I think, totally cool!
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  • Looking straight up at John and Dawn, with the "sky" in the background.
  • The video of my current camera is of quite poor quality. Still, I do enjoy placing some in among the stills. If you decide to watch this, please make sure that your sound is on.
  • Sharing the ocean with some Teardrop butterflyfish (Chaetodon unimaculatus).
  • Sky above, reef below.
  • We now start our second dive of the day. I guess this is my present favorite "dive destination." For lack of a better name, I call it "Twin Sunroof Cave."
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