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| Under cover - A Puffadder shyshark. |
Hydroids, anemones, feather stars, and a sea fan with a growth. |
Orange wall sponge, the largest in the Cape are here. Can be up to 6 ft long. Currently being studied as having anti-cancer properties. |
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| Mixed marine life at Batsata Rock. |
Sinuous Sea fan with hybrids, and a nudibranch with some fine lacy white egg sacks left behind. |
Monty |
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| Reef & divers |
Beautiful clear waters |
Cauliflower soft corals out feeding in the gentle surge |
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| One of my favorites: Brittle Star |
Brittle stars can be found in little "colonies". The black one in the middle was trying to get ahold of a snack. |
Brittle star navigating a sponge |
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| Cauliflower soft corals and other invertebrate life |
Orange wall sponge with a splash of other sponge and corals |
Close up of the textures |
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| Red starfish everywhere today |
Too much to name it all... |
Poor little Puffadder thought I was going to eat him! ) : I righted him so his little white belly wasn't exposed since he tipped the wrong way after his rolling getaway. |
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| Rolling away... a defense mechanism to make them a more difficult snack for predators. |
Eyes tight shut. This was the very first time I've seen one do this. Poor little thing! |
Two nudibranches rest amongst the anemones and urchins. |
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| Just a lovely little scene with typical Indian Ocean texture and color. |
My first Red Roman photo - been anxious for one since arriving! |
Red Romans have pronounced teeth, and roam to depths of 100 meters. This one was a big boy... see females undergo a sex reversal, when they are 30 cm in size. |
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| A Puffadder shy shark |
Another charming Red Roman. |
Mermaids purse. A puffadder shyshark's egg sack. |
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| Posing next to an orange sponge |
Sunburst soft coral |
Red starfish hanging out on some unidentifed but plentiful hard coral. |
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| Thought it was a great photographic subject |
Spiny Starfish on a ledge |
The Cape Town crew at the Southern Right, after a great day of diving. |
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| A large, 4-legged large friend who joined us for lunch. He's a Boerboel. Beautiful dog!! |
Bums 'o bread thieves. |