Saturday, March 04, 2006

Photos from Similan....

Check out some photos from my fren, Jasmine's recent dive trip to Similan :D

I'm trying to recognize and name more fishes n other marine life so that I know wat I see next time when I'm in the sea...


Top: Racoon butterflyfish
Mid left: Lined butterflyfish
Mid right: Black pyramid butterflyfish
Bottom left: Meyer's butterflyfish befriending another ??? butterflyfish
Bottom right: Pair of red tailed butterflyfish in the present of ???



Top left: Long-finned bannerfish
Top right: Regal angelfish
Mid: Powder blue surgeonfish
Bottom left: A parrotfish??
Bottom right: Scribbled filefish



Top left: Red saddleback anemonefish
Top right: Clark's anemonefish
Bottom left: A sandperch??
Bottom right: A wrasse??



School of damselfish


School of snappers?


Top: Boxfish...left: yellow boxfish, right: female spotted boxfish
Bottom: Pufferfish...left: sealed face puffer, right: toby puffer?



Top left: Scorpionfish
Top right: Black blotched porcupinefish
Bottom left: Black blotched porcupinefish and a couple of ?? porcupinefish were sleeping
Bottom right: Someone woke up the black blotched porcupinefish...so cute hor



Top and bottom left: Harlequin ghost pipefish...wonder if it's the exact same one as the one we saw...
Bottom right: Smooth flutemouth



Top: Moray eel
Mid: Green turtle?
Bottom left: Some stingray
Bottom right: Leopard shark



Top: Seastars
Mid left: Sea urchin
Mid right: Coneshell
Bottom left: Tiger cowries
Bottom right: Egg cowries



Top: Giant clam!!!
Bottom left: Some sea slug?
Bottom right: ???


So Jas saw quite a number of cool stuff that we din...like the turtle, leopard shark, and little sting ray....no manta rays and whale sharks for us though :P

Hope I managed to name them correctly :P
Do leave a comment if u notice anything wrongly named or would like to fill up the ??? :D

3 comments:

Muggs said...

I need compressed air badly...

Anonymous said...

the pics were beautifully taken...
"thumbs up"

penguin said...

FYI photos are not taken by me...as mentioned on the first line...it's my fren's diving trip...