Wakatobi Trip 2007

Dive Resort is far southeast Sulawesi ..The diversity of young fish, corals and sponges was amazing. The absence of sharks and dolphins noteworthy. Lorenz, the owner of the resort on Onemobaa Island (next to Tomia) is trying to teach people in the area about marine conservation and sustainable development. A long long trip via Singapore and Bali (it's 17 hours to Singapore from LA, then 3 to Bali and then 3 or four on a prop plane to Tomea then a short boat ride). With the help of people here, I decided to buy a point and shoot Canon G7 and the dive shop, Sandia Snorkel and Scuba, loaned me a strobe which I used some of the time. Learned a lot ...and saw what good photos should look like, but I had fun taking these.

Skunk Anenome Fish

Bubble Coral Shrimp (it's tiny)

Anenome Fish ...they were fun.

Aligator Fish ...hard to spot but they stayed still while ya took photos.

Another Anenome Fish - Nemo to be exact, lol.

With the strobe or lights it is really colourful

Anenome Fish were everywhere....

Crown of Thorns (a sea star) eating the coral

Clownfish

Dancers at a home compound in Ubud, Bali

Kitchen in Ubud

Rice Fields on the way to the Volcano in Bali

Sea Worms

Frogfish

White Nudibranch

Black Ribbon Eel

Batfish with isopods. See the teachers pic with the good camera at
Rod Klein. At least I saw the right subject. He did tell us that we should
get our eyes fixed. I didn't see the isopods when I shot the picture!

Lion Fishes abounded

These beautiful blue schools where everywhere.

Fancy Bird in Bali

Front view of a cuttlefish.

Side view of the cuttlefish.

A woman bringing in her catch at Tomea

A boy with his kite in Tomea

Moth fishes

Old man in Tomea

Tomea Village

This juvenile midnight snapper was a blast to play with. It loved to eat our bubbles.

Roasting coffee in Bali

That's the mask I bought from Marka in Bali ...great masks and great
sense of humor!

Some kind of big eyed' fish

Ghost pipefish

Lobster at night

Nudibranch

Tiny Pigmy Seahorse

I ran into the US Marines in Singapore on a Friday night!

Another Lion Fish

Tomea Young Woman

Ubitiquous Yellow Fish

Young Fisherman at Tomea Wharf

Leaf fish

Scorpion Fish

Stone Fish in the Sand (don't want to step on them)

Sponges

Beautiful fishes everywhere