We went to a reef where not to visit often. However we spotted quite a few big marine creatures like usual - Maori Wrasse, Green Seaturtle, Mackerel, Giant Trevally, Blue-fin Trevally, Blue-spotted Stingray, Blue-spotted Ribbontail Stingray and Whitetip Reefshark. Especially, we came verry close to a Whitetip Reefshark as he was sleapy on the sand.
A Sharksucker hitchhiked all the time for a dive with out team.
Caesio cuning /Red-bellied fusilier
Premnas biaculeatus /Spinecheek anemonefish
Macropharyngodon choati/Choats Wrasse - The Great Barrier Reef native
Ostracion cubicus/Yellow boxfish
We can see many different types of Starfish in the Great Barrier Reef, too.
We also enjoyed beautiful coral gardens and dynamic landscapes.
We had new PADI Openwater divers and newOWS instructor in this trip.
Daigo started his PADI Resque Diver Course with AL WING and became an OWSI last week. He is working as an assistant for dive courses and DSD until his register completed and learning to be a professional of dive trip coordination.
New Openwater divers - mastered controlling their buoyancy - were hovering onto Green Seaturtle and coral beds.
The clear water and colourful corals at the shallow reef.
This short movie was taken at sunset time.
We can enjoy vast of colours anytime in the day at the Great Barrie Reef.
Map puffer / Arothron mappa- about 700 mm long.
Whitetip reef shark / Triaenodon obesus
Green Humphead Parrotfish / Bolbometopon muricatum/
Menaethius monoceros on the moring line - about 3 mm long
Fragfin Shrimpgoby with a beautiful back fin - lived symbiotically with a Snapping Shrimp at the deep sandy bottom.
Our new instructor trainee Daigo accompanied his first introductory divers in the water.
They, were from Sweden and India, seemed to enjoy their first dive. After this dive, Daigo certified a new Openwater diver who came from UK.
Our regular entertainers like Green Seaturtle, Whitetip Reefshark and Blue-spotted Stingray showed their great figures.
We also had PADI Underwater Naturalist course, so introduce some marine creatures and their unique life style. Green Seaturtle is one of the most popular invertebrate animal in the Great Barrier Reef.
Sea Anemones are the invertebrate and Crown Anemonefish are the vertebrate. They live symbiotically.
White-line Seawhip Goby on the moring line as well as Caulerpa Racemosa.
Caulerpa lentillifera is the edible seaweed, called "Sea Grapes" or "Green Caviar" and have been breeding commercially in Okinawa.
Halimeda Opuntia Sp looks like the cactus.
Padina Arborescens Holmes or Funnel Weed seasonally grows thick on the sandy bottom in the Great Barrier Reef.
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