Diving in Malapascua – home of the thresher shark (2of2)

From Palawan we have a direct flight to Cebu. The plane leaves 30min ahead of schedule, they were done with the boarding 🙂 From Cebu it’s a 3.5h drive to the northern tip of the island and a 30min boat ride to Malapascua. We’re back at Ocean Vida and diving with Martin at Sea Explorers. […]

Diving in Malapascua – home of the thresher shark (1of2)

From Palawan we have a direct flight to Cebu. The plane leaves 30min ahead of schedule, they were done with the boarding 🙂 From Cebu it’s a 3.5h drive to the northern tip of the island and a 30min boat ride to Malapascua. We’re back at Ocean Vida and diving with Martin at Sea Explorers. […]

Day 46 – Diving in Sipadan (Barracuda Point)

one of my favourite images: a shoal of jack fish swarming, a tuna in the middle and 5 sharks at the bottom

Day 45 – Diving in Sipadan (Barracuda Point)

depending on what diving magazine you read, the Barracuda Point in Sipadan is considered to be the best place in the world to dive. we returned here after 2 years and for sure we’ll come again. the white-tip fin shark – the world’s laziest shark, i took this picture from about 1 1/2 -2 m.

Day 44 – Diving in Mabul

Day 43 – Diving in Mabul

Day 37 – Diving in Bohol (little things)

Day 36 – Diving in Bohol

the parent trigger fish is known to defend the surroundings of its nest even from divers, by no means this is a little fish, its bite can be rather painful, the guide needed to jump in my defence as of a wired reason it targeted me as potential predator…

Day 35 – Diving in Bohol

Day 33 – Diving in Malapascua

Day 32 – Diving in Malapascua

Day 31 – Diving in Malapascua

everyone loves Nemo squat shrimp mating tobbies

Day 9 – Diving in Palau

with the bigeye jacks on this island they shot the first season of “Survivor”

Mantis shrimp *

really cute tiny creature, extremely shy and so colorful. after i went so close to it to get these macros was i told that very often they hit the camera dome so strong with their claws that they are responsible for a lot of camera floods…

Moraine-eels *

my favourite underwater creature

Cuttle fish *

believe it or not is the same one in all pictures, all happening within 4-5 seconds

Sulawesi – Crabs (3/3) *

these two ones, i don’t think they were more than 4 mm big, the power of macro lenses

Sulawesi – Crabs (2/3) *

Sulawesi – Crabs (1/3) *

Sulawesi – Anemonefish (2/2) *

Sulawesi – Anemonefish (1/2) *

after a very very long break I start to post way overdue pictures. I will begin with the diving pictures in Sulawesi, best dive ever, two weeks, 1563 good pictures (after each dive any missfocus or missfiring of the flashes or just bad picture, was immediately deleted). It took me almost 3 months to come […]

Maldives UWP last post and gallery published

to see the entire Maldives gallery hover with the mouse over the Menu, then over Travel and click on Maldives.

Maldives UWP – little tiny ones*

Blue Ribbon and various Moraines

Blue Ribbon above, my favorite picture of the Maldives series       Golden moraine, initially i thought it was a baby moraine, to find out in the end it is very rare specie of moraine Honeycomb-Moraine

Maldives UWP – Tobby*

Maldives UWP – blue striped snappers*

Maldives UWP Close-ups and Macros*

from now on whenever i put * at the end of the tile it means there are more than one picture in the post

Maldives UWP Juvenile yellow boxfish*

from now on whenever i put * at the end of the tile it means there are more than one picture in the post

Maldives UWP Turtle and the paparazzi*

from now on whenever i put * at the end of the tile it means there are more than one picture in the post

Maldives UWP Clown and Anemone fish*

from now on whenever i put * at the end of the tile it means there are more than one picture in the post perhaps the most photographed fish

Sydney Aquarium_1

Sydney Aquarium_2

Sydney Aquarium_3

Sydney Aquarium_4

Sydney Aquarium_5

Sydney Aquarium_6

Sydney Aquarium_7

great barrier reef_3

great barrier reef_4

great barrier reef_1

spoilers alert: well kinda difficult to put that into a cartoon and explain kids the story, but in real life, Melvin (nemo’s dad) would transform his gender, becoming a mommy, and Nemo being the only male alive would become the new daddy..

great barrier reef_2

great barrier reef_swimming with the sharks_2