Monday, July 27, 2009

Sh'ab Abu Nahas

Surperb night dive. Off back of Typhoon with Adrian and down to reef. Against slight current with reef on left shoulder. Could see the lights of the other buddy pairs for a short while but we soon dispersed. I had my small UK torch and mini UK torch strapped to strobe as a modelling light (this would be sufficient).

Wildlife included large basket stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, thorny starfish, red blotchy starfish, various sea cucumbers and a brilliant spanish dancer. Tiny pink coral crabs and a striped prawn. Stonefish, rabbitfish. A tiny cuttlefish, and my first cone shell!

Good moonlight views up the coral reef. Started back after 25 minutes but drifted back in 10 and had time to potter around a bit more. For taking pictures much easier swimming into current.

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