Nudi Gal: Black Magic

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Black Magic

I am so excited. According to my calculations, we have 7 more days of diving!!!

On the first dive, I found a bottle. It was small and brown and inside of it was a gauzy white thing wrapped like a tootsie roll. I assumed that there was a note inside so I swam around with it the whole dive. When I handed it up on the boat, I was told that this was Black Magic. The locals believe that when you have negative thoughts, you write them down and tie them up and put them in a bottle and throw them in the ocean. So Dharma threw the bottle back... I never got to read the note inside. Dharma said that it would be illegible anyway. Even he cannot read Balinese writing. OK, I hope the fact we threw it back will give me good karma!

We also found another big nudi so we took another selfie. J

Born to be Wild (a Filipino Nature Show) interviewed Bernard today over Skype.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_to_Be_Wild_(TV_series)

I don’t have a link to the actual episode but I think they filmed it from Villa Markisa!

Gabby and Ula left today. They were such a nice couple.

My Air 2 regulator started free flowing on the night dive. It wasn’t just a trickle, it was a pretty significant steady stream. I disconnected my inflator hose and I was just fine. So annoying. We’ll try to fix it tomorrow morning.

Here are the new nudibranchs I found today:

290 - Flabellina bicolor

291 - Phyllidiopsis annae

292 - Unknown (flabellina with white body with orange rhinophores and cerata with lavender tips)

293 - Trapania toddy

294 - Unknown (white with yellow cerata and orange rhinophores)

295 - Halgerda elegans

296 - Halgerda willeyi

I believe that this one is different because there are black lines within the gold lace lines on the body.

297 - Ceratophyllidia sp. 4

298 - Siphopteron citrinum

Jim Anderson calls this one a Siphopteron tigrinum.

299 - Haminoeid sp.

300 - Kaloplocamus sp.

301 - Kaloplocamus sp. (with branching cerata)

Not sure if this one is different, but I counted it because of the branching cerata. The previous one didn't have those.

302 - Flabellina bilas

303 - Elysia cf. trilobata

304 - Bursatella lechii

Some books have this as Bursatella lechii lechii.

305 - Unknown (all white flabellina-like with just a little lavendar)

306 - Unknown (flabellina like with striated rhinophores see through oral tentacles, white with a bit of an orange tint colored body, cerata with lavendar culminating in a ring and then white tips)