It is softly raining in the dark outside. There is a little bit of thunder rolling in the background. I am sitting at the dining room table. Alone. My hair is in pony tails so I can turn them into braids later. I am working on my nudi list, drinking the Indonesian coffee with my French vanilla powdered creamer. I feel good (except for a little hydroid rash on my thumb). This is my happy place.
Pirjo isn’t feeling well. She still went on the first dive but had trouble with her ears. She and Francis finished the dive shallow up by some beautiful corals. I stayed down with Nikko and found more nudis. She also skipped the second dive. I found a new nudi to me. Goniobranchus sp. 15.
The other boat saw a whale shark at the end of their dive.
On the afternoon dive I found a Goniobranchus collingwoodi and went to snoot it. As I was setting up, I lost it. I suffer from Lost Subject Syndrome or LSS. I have to remember in the future to put a toothpick next to it or leave my light there. Oh man.
The night dive was out of this world. Nikko found Tenellia sp. 79 with eggs!
I found two red flatworms penis fencing.
And lots of new species.
Fireworks Show
174 - Phyllidiopsis xishaensis
175 - Phyllidia elegans
176 - Nembrotha sp. 1
177 - Nembrotha cristata
178 - Goniodoridella savignyi
179 - Nembrotha chamberlaini
180 - Goniobranchus sp. 15
181 - Phyllidiella sp.
182 - Glossodoris acosti
183 - Goniobranchus collingwoodi
184 - Coryphellina sp.
185 - Kaloplocamus acutus
186 - Lomanotus vermiformis
187 - Sakuraeolis sp. 2
188 - Eubranchus sp. 2
189 - Unidentia sandramillenae
191 - Pleurobranchus weberi
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