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Grotto and Wing, May 23, 2009

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Here you get a better idea of how nice and white the crevasse bottom is.
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Here you get a better idea of how nice and white the crevasse bottom is.

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  • A nice colony of Dusky anemonefish (Amphiprion melanopus).
  • Time to start our Sunday Wing Beach dive. Rose, Mary, and I have met Judy at Wing Beach for this late morning dive. The uncommonly calm conditions allow us to spend time in the shallows.
  • Strange bedfellows: Lemonpeel angelfish (Centropyge flavissima) are very timid, spending very little time exposed in such a way that one can get a worthwhile photo at all. Whitemouth morays (Gymnothorax meleagris), on the other hand, tend to spend most of their time in tunnels, or with most of their bodies in tunnels and their snouts sticking out, as you see this one doing here. I'm sure I have no other photo of these two species together.
  • Whitemouth moray. No, he did not just enjoy a Lemonpeel angelfish meal prior to this photo.
  • We explored parts of Wing which we have not seen before, again, made possible by the calm conditions. Here is a nice crevasse with a white shell / coral bottom. At the beginning of the clip, you see Judy's tank through a hole in the rock above, then you will see Rose, Mary, and Judy along the bottom.
  • Here you get a better idea of how nice and white the crevasse bottom is.
  • After spending some pretty cool time in the shallows, we headed for the Canyon (what Judy calls the Crevice, and some other folks call the crack), descended, and headed back south. Here, you see Judy through this nice stand of Whip coral (Stichopathes sp.).
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  • We have proceeded south, and are now on the "flats" to the east of Wing Beach. Mary found a nice blenny. I'm not sure, but I think it is a Leopard blenny (Exalias brevis).
  • As I got closer to take a photo, the blenny darted into a hole. His mouth is to your left in this photo (not visible due to being blocked by the coral, but just keep in mind that he is looking to your left).
  • OK: Time to head back. This is it for the weekend of diving. Hope y'all enjoyed it!
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