All empty shells far up on the rocks. The one in the last photo looks like it still has some flesh attached and is maybe full of tiny scavenger bug things.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Small/young fish near a rubble pile.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Getting near adult size, but still juvenile coloring. Photos are of two different animals in the same general vicinity.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Attacking a depth gauge, and later some fingers.
Longfin or Threespot. Unfortunately neither I not my dive buddies got a better photo.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Masked or Glass Goby.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Thoroughly encrusted so no spines are visible, but from the "lip" pattern I think it must be a thorny oyster.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Out in the blue past the drop-off.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Big school near the scuba dock.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
One of many different kinds of largeish fish raptly following a hunting Sharptail Eel.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
One of many different kinds of largeish fish raptly following a hunting Sharptail Eel.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Both hunting in the rocks. No eel fight resulted.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
One of many different kinds of largeish fish raptly following a hunting Sharptail Eel.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
One of many different kinds of largeish fish raptly following a hunting Sharptail Eel.
Do Schoolmasters and Grey Snapper hybridize?
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
One of many different kinds of largeish fish raptly following a hunting Sharptail Eel.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Protecting his nest.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft, late afternoon.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft.
Not sure if Longlure or Ocellated.
Dive site Bari Reef, max depth 14.3 m/47 ft.
This was late in the afternoon, and there were a whole lot of excited Creole Wrasse darting around right at the drop-off, often in pairs.
