The tiny creatures are present on the reefs too, but Muck Diving is part of the draw in coming to this part of this world.
Macro, they call it, because of the lens it take to photograph them. In actual fact these are teeny tiny creatures. Honestly, crabs the size of a pencil eraser, shrimp that small too. One little worm that looked like a 1cm piece of thread on the coral. And the challenge of trying to see these things while floating in the water just above a silty, fine sand surface that you are trying desperately not to inadvertently stir up. Everyone searching along the dark sandy bottom, searching and searching...finding something. Then searching and searching...finding something else.
Honestly not my cup of tea. Not likely to do it again. But still good to have done it once (or 5 times, I guess). Otherwise how would I have ever seen that peacock mantis shrimp I posted earlier or a vast array of these kinds of little guys:
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