Nudi Gal

Friday, November 28, 2025

Cannibal Lecter

One of the guest who arrived yesterday cannot find his passport. Yikes.

Two new couples arrived. One from Germany, one from Austria.

Nikko is back diving with us! Hooray!

I actually took a picture of a shrimp. I mean, it is pretty great under the diopter.

I found a Phyllidia ocellata with a pattern that looked like eyeglasses.

We saw the most amazing scene of a Gymnodoris inornata eating a Platydoris sanguinea from the underside. It looked like the Gymnodoris was wearing the Platydoris as a Halloween costume. Soooo Soooo Cool!

I had a really good night dive on the house reef where I saw about 10 nudis in a five foot diameter just to the right of the mooring block. I didn’t know that area was such a hotspot.

It was Lynn’s birthday tonight. They turned out the lights and brought her a birthday candle on her coconut cake and we all sang to her.

Nudipalooza

119 - Ceratosoma trilobatum

120 - Odontoglaja guamensis

121 - Eubranchus sp. 26

122 - Hypselodoris nigrostriata

123 - Hypselodoris confetti

124 - Mexichromis mariei

125 - Phyllidia sp. 1

126 - Goniodoridella sp. 5

127 - Hypselodoris decorata

128 - Mexichromis sp. 3

129 - Goniobranchus leopardus

130 - Mexichromis trilineata

131 - Atagema sp.

132 - Goniodoridella sp. 6

133 - Verconia simplex

Thursday, November 27, 2025

Found Frogfish

I FaceTimed my family in Joplin during their Thanksgiving meal. It was really fun to see and talk to everyone for a bit. I’ll be there for Christmas.

Ben was our guide today and it was just John, Cathy and me on the boat. We did two reefy currenty dives… and on the second one I found a red frogfish and pointed it out to them.

There are three new divers here who came together from the UK. Two are a couple and then there is one other guy. The gal called him her extra dive buddy. I’ll call them the “Air and a Spare”.

On the night dive I tried again to “snoot like a lady”. OMG. Still terrible at it. And I am not sure my results were all that good.

I put on my meal info that I don’t like tomatoes. They are doing such a good job of giving me a salad without tomatoes and tonight I got eggplant without tomatoes. It was so great.

There was a little bit of thunder tonight.

Oh no, my counts are WAY DOWN today. I attribute this to the sites we went to and the fact that we dove with Ben today instead of Nikko. I miss Nikko. He had a stye on one of his eyes. I wonder if that was why he needed the day off… or if it was just his regular scheduled day off.

The found froggie:

Slug Line

109 - Dermatobranchus rodmani

110 - Sagaminopteron psychedelicum

111 - Sagaminopteron sp. 1

This one is really special. I haven't seen it before in Alor.

112 - Nembrotha kubaryana

113 - Cratena sp. 2

114 - Phyllodesmium briareum

115 - Miamira sinuata

116 - Thuridilla albopustulosa

117 - Chromodoris annae

118 - Chromodoris cf. strigata

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Air 2 Déjà vu

I woke up to the power being out again. It seems like it happens about once a day. If Uri is awake then he switches us to the backup generator. But this morning we are not on it yet. The weird thing is that the WiFi is still working.

I walked over to the common area and its power is fine. There is just something wrong with Bungalow Three. Later in the morning the power was working again. Who knows?

I had to do a software update for my Mac which is always tricky when I’m on a trip, but it went through pretty well, even on this WiFi.

Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving. There are five Americans at the resort right now. Two guys from San Diego and a couple from Oregon and me. I don’t think there will be any turkey on the menu.

The two mucky morning dives were on fire. Totally fan-tab-ulous.

After lunch I jumped the house reef. OMG. What a dive. First I found a beautiful sea rose on the mooring. It was really calm so I decided to meander over to the second mooring where I found a Goniobranchus fidelis. I was taking lots of pictures when a sea krait swam right up under me. Gah! I was pretty calm about it though and still took a few more nudi shots. Then I started to inch my way back to the main trench when I came across a Glossodoris sp. 4. OMG, so gorgeous and out on top of a rock. I took a few pictures and then decided to snoot it. Even though I was alone, I made it a point of trying to be calm and organized in setting up for the shot. I think I got a few good ones. As I was putting everything back together I noticed just a little stream of bubbles coming out of my Air 2. Damn the Air 2. I had some issues last year as well. Air 2 Déjà vu. Oh man. I decided to hit the purge. Bad idea. It started free flowing. Argh. Well, I wasn’t loosing air that fast so I was still able to do a good safety stop. Then at the surface, I played with it and it seemed to be fine. I still had Uri look at it with me. We took it apart and cleaned and reseated it. It seems to be OK, but I am going to let Nikko know anyway.

At the beginning of the dive I found a Spanish Dancer under a cement block but it was so far under I couldn't get a picture. I called Nikko over to help, but it was no use. The thing crawled under further. Do I count this one or not?

At dinner we had BANANA ice cream. OMG. It was so good. I am totally getting the recipe and the machine they have to make it.

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85 - Bermudella brunneomaculata (old name was Okenia brunneomaculata)