Thursday, May 24, 2018

All Creatures Great and Small

The reef dives in Sulawesi were chockablock full of fish. Some I had seem before, versions of others I hadn't (black snapper rather than yellow or red, billions of bright blue tailed trigger fish, Napoleon groupers, long nosed butterfly fish rather than their snub nosed relatives...) and tons of ones I had never seen or heard of before: crocodile fish, scorpion fish, frog fish with their articulated elbows walking slowly on the bottom in a lumbering gait... even anemone fish, those Nemo clown fish and other colors hiding in those finger like anemones but also wrapped up in colorful carpet anemones - at night time wearing them like "shawls" with just their wee heads sticking out. There were pajama fish in their polka dot "pants" and webbed "belts". And black and bright blue ribbon eels. So many it is impossible to remember them all. 

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