Thursday, November 30, 2023

Dolphin Escorts

I woke up really early and worked on identifying my nudis.  I only had a couple for Pirjo to review.

I got a little out of breath on the first dive with some current.  I even showed Nikko my PSI at 1000 since we were still down kinda deep. He showed me exactly where the boat was though and I felt pretty comfortable.

During our surface interval, there were two kinds of dolphin swimming in a huge pod together.  Spinner and melon head.  There were sooo many of them.

The second dive was so warm, no current… and I forgot about the beautiful wall here.  Holy cow, it was gorgeous.  We found many nudis and we stayed down a long time.  THIS is what I came here for.  At the end all of the kids were free diving off the dock.

At lunch, I jumped up after the meal and grabbed a piece of cake.  I totally forgot that they serve you lunch dessert.  I hadn’t made it to lunch on my arrival day or the first day of diving, so I forgot how it works!

Yesterday Rhome and Max told a story about these awful guests from Bulgaria.  So today they started teasing me that I may need to get a “Bulgarian rating”.  That my transgressions here at the resort are getting as bad as the Bulgarians.  Oh man, I better shape up!

I jumped the house reef today.  It was a little slow at first but then it picked up toward the end.  

Dinner was another fabulous meal and I was so tired, I just crashed.

Here are the new nudis today:

28. Phyllidiella nigra

29. Doriprismatica balut

30. Nembrotha chamberlaini

31. Glossodoris rufomarginata

32. Phyllidiella pustulosa

33. Dendrodoris carbunculosa

We posted this one to Facebook.  I was sure that it was a Paradoris of some kind.

http://seaslugs.free.fr/nudibranche/a_dendrodoris_carbunculosa_juvenile.htm


34. "Taringa" halgerda

35. Phyllodesmium poindimiei

36. Marionia sp. 8.  



37. Roboastra gracilis

38. Discodoris boholensis

39. Berthella martensi

40. Sagaminopteron psychedelicum

41. Flabellina flamma

42. Samla riwo

43. Philinopsis gardineri

44. Glossodoris acosti


45. Trapania vitta

46. Sclerodoris tuberculata

47. Dermatobranchus sp. 3

48. Flabellina sp. 3

49. Melibe virdis

50. Flabellina sp. 1





51. Atagema intecta


52. Hexabranchus sanguineus

53. Facelind sp. 5




54. Melibe papillosa

Originally we thought was Melibe pilosa, but Marli Wakeling said " No, wrong locale for that species."

55. Pleurobranchus forskali

56. Pleurobranchus peronii

This one is the juvenile


57. Dolabella auricularia


This is the sea hare with its butt chopped off!





















































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