DIVE LOG DECEMBER 25 ISSUE 415

Feather Stars often have both commensal shrimps and squat lobsters.

As always, divers can go for the big stuff or the fish life or the tiny stuff. If you are keen on macro subjects, there are so many tiny life forms that can be found. It is like a restaurant. You can order from the menu. Can you find me a squat lobster or a Pygmy Sea Horse? Usually they will either find it for you or tell you that they can find it at so and so dive site. Mostly, depending on conditions, they will take you there on the next dive. To get to Walindi, I like to overnight in Cairns and get the early morning flight to Port Moresby. Usually you can get a connecting flight on the same day. Then it is a one hour bus ride to Walindi and its magical tropical gardens that Cecile Benjamn has nurtured for decades.

Juvenile Peacock Mantis shrimp.

Susan’s reef had Denise Pygmy Sea Horse colonies down at 25 metres,

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DIVE LOG Australasia #415 - December’ 25

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