The week end saw us diving twice the Turtle Farm Mini Wall and Don Foster's Dive Reef for a night dive. We found a Pipe Fish along the mini wall, several Scorpion Fish and a beautiful painted Blenny. But the most entertaining creature was a Dark Mantis Shrimp that we found on the sand, away from any obvious protection. We attempted to close in on him for macro pictures that in the end they don't do justice to how detailed this shrimp was. I can see through my camera's lens that he started swimming toward right up to me. After facing the lens port, he proceeded to walk around my housing and seemed very comfortable there. We took advantage of his comfort and took several pics.
During the night we dove the reef right in front of Don Foster's. We saw many interesting creatures and fish behaviour although our night photography skills were not up to par :(
Turtle reef is the only place I've seen mantis shrimp on this island.
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