Our second day of diving in Amed was not quite as great as the first as far as visibility goes (it rained the previous afternoon), but we still saw a ton of stuff (and cemented the hunch I had that neither Tim nor I is capable of taking non-blurry video of a nudibranch).
Our first dive was the Jemeluk Wall, with a bit of a current. Video highlights include:
- heading out on the jukung again (this time we were two jukungs' worth of divers... each jukung fits max 4 people including the captain)
Our first dive was the Jemeluk Wall, with a bit of a current. Video highlights include:
- heading out on the jukung again (this time we were two jukungs' worth of divers... each jukung fits max 4 people including the captain)
- a school of fish (who our dive guide said were "jawfish" due to their open-mouth plankton feeding, but my online research says jawfish are little sand-dwelling guys?) at 0:12... they show up again at 0:44
- pretty purple tube-y things... I'm sure they have a technical name, but I'll go with pretty purple tubes
- lionfish at 0:45
- cool blue nudibranch at 1:01
- scorpionfish (sneaky, blending in) at 1:11
- cool leaf scorpionfish at 1:19!
Second dive of the day = Amed Pyramids, a series of concrete pyramids installed offshore by the local community in the '90s to serve as the basis for a rejuvenated reef. They're pretty well covered in different corals and are currently serving as a hideout for all sorts of fish. The visibility was crap- we actually lost our divemaster for a hot second at one point- and the current was pretty strong. But despite that, Tim managed to take some awesome video of the fish swimming into said current.
Video highlights:
- heading down!
- egg ribbon of the Spanish Dancer nudibranch
- a couple two-tone dartfishes at 0:54
- lots of little colorful fish hanging out in the current, anthias and such
- the pyramids begin at 2:32, surrounded by tons of fish, including what I think is a school of yellow, 5-lined snapper at 2:48
- at 3:26, what I think is a midnight snapper and a couple horn-less unicornfish?
- anemone fish at 3:46
- moray eel snapping his mouth shut at 4:00
- another leaf scorpionfish hanging out inside the pyramid... this time the pink/red variety: 4:25
- a starfish and a cool black and green striped nudibranch with orange accents at 4:45
- granulated sea star at 6:16
- another nudibranch at 6:52
- a cool juvenile many-spotted sweetlips fluttering around on the reef at 7:12
- goatfish at 7:21- check out his little chin barbs digging in the sand
- some sort of filefish, maybe, at 7:41
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