Friday, 30 August 2013

The weird and wonderful world down below

I have been doing a lot of diving recently (Divemaster here I come!) and I continue to be amazed by the many strange and beautiful sights that the underwater world has to offer. Here is a little taster of some of my latest faves ...

Moray eel and grouper love-in ...
They apparently get together to hunt,
but these two look like they're getting a bit 'musical' ...
The two-faced toadfish,
unique to Oman apparently ...
Properly ugly and very weird!
OK, not strange this one, but very pretty ...

Bubble anemone? Or if that isn't it's name,
it should be ... with cute domino fish

A scorpionfish that hasn't quite mastered
the cunning camouflage thing ...
they're normally pretty good at it!

A Moses sole ... I swear!

Lionfish ballet!

A swirling ball of baby striped eel catfish