more pictures from around Lembeh

This first picture is of a nice little blenny I found down by the wreck on the house reef. They seem to prefer hanging out in pipe openings. great place to check out the world! Notice the little nudie in the middle of the pipe? I didn't, until I looked at the photo later!



I don't know the name of this octo, but we found him at a site called Aer Bajos 3. Got a few photos of him before he took of down slope. Not so paparazzi friendly, i guess.


These are striped catfish! they are always swimming in a tight pack, sniffing out edibles on the sea floor. Theres at least one if not two resident packs on the house reef, and I just spotted a swarm of juvenile catfish there also. So far I've only seen this on the house reef, but alongside the pack of catfish is often a solitary doublebanded soapfish.


Here's a cute little coconut octopus, found at the same site at the previous picture of catfish, which I think might be Jahir 2. We found him hiding out in a coke bottle, and then moved into the clam shell later.


I'm also learning Indonesian! All the dive guides and resort staff have become my friends and teachers. Just starting with phrases and keywords, like apa kabar (how're you) and baik (fine), trying to move onto constructing sentences too, a little bit harder though! Sampai jumpa besok! (see you tomorrow!)