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Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013

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Post  Admin 31st October 2013, 9:43 am

Two boats went out for this trip.
The vis was just 6 to 8 meters for this trip but we had smooth waters and a very calm bar to cross.
This how rough the open ocean was for both boats on the day.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Heading-out-_zps583fb73d

Lots of coral spawn and general plankton due to the south to north current.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Coral-spawn-_zps47f5395b

Vis was okay.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Vis-3-_zpsf300585c

Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Vis-2-_zpsca5a6cfe

Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Vis-1-_zps16c8b2e8

Heaps of fish feeding on planktonic life.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Fish-3-_zps69379c37

Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Fish-2-_zpsc2101a7c


Tube worm cluster out.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Worm-cluster-out-_zps8ac75f94

Same cluster retracted.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Worm-cluster-in-_zpsdfc28ca9

xmas tree worms.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Xmas-tree-worms-_zpsf5db970d

Tube worms in purple morphs.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Tube-worms-in-morphs-2-_zps041c1a17

Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Tube-worms-in-morphs-_zps339fcc87

Single tube worm of thousands seen.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Tube-worm-2-_zpse864dbfc

A local Melanopus-tomatoe clown.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Tomatoe-clowns-face-_zpsc6b6ded9

Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Tomatoe-clown-_zps25662c76

Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Tomatoe-clown-2-_zpsca079bc7


A large stone fish.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Stone-fish-1-_zpsc244aee0

Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Stone-fish-2-_zps82253a82


A lot of thor shrimps seen.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Shrimp-2-_zps71d7e484

Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Shrimp-pair-_zpsaa4a069b

Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Shrimp-1-_zps8a9c99e1

One thor collected.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Collected-shrimp-2-_zps07da5ea2

Some nice red algae seen and collected.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Red-algae-_zps0f03b5fd

A young lat hosting in soft coral.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Lat-in-soft-coral-_zpsacf8dc1f

Hundreds of latz this day were seen.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Latz-_zps37065201

A common nudi
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Nudi-_zpsb8770dbb


A few large pineapple fish seen.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Pineapple-2-_zps2d2f80b8

Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Large-pineapple-1-_zps2aecf5fa


Plenty of rays for their mating time of year.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Ray-_zps9533acb4

A young latezonatus and akindynos.  
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Lat-and-akin-_zps5956fa27

Two akindynos wanting the one anemone tucked away in this little cave.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Akindynos-two-_zpsdf0882a5

A small plate of many seen.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Coral-2-_zps752eabb8

A large plate coral of many seen.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Coral-3-_zpsfe723405

One of the prettier feather sea stars common in our area.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Feather-sea-star-_zps25e5ec88

A very common variation of colonising anemones.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Colony-aemones-1-_zps7c986ee8

Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Colony-anemones-2-_zpsa723c8c1

A nice coloured local acan.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Acan-_zps03501b14

A lot of clown wrasse came in the plankton last year for this season.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Clown-wrasse-2-_zps5dcce3ed

Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Clown-wrasse-_zps04c0c13f

One of hundreds of biscuit sea stars seen.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 Biscuit-sea-star-_zpsc7c39f7e

Time to head home, this is as we crossed the near non-existent bar.
Collecting boat trip, first for October 2013 The-bar-heading-home-_zps3edca91b
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