After Aldrin posted the great shots from his Laguna Beach dive I got all fired up on the nudibrach quest and have determined to add a new nudibranch to the site every week. This weeks colorful creature comes to us from none other than the beautiful Sipadan Islands in Malaysia. The name of this weeks Nudibrach is Chromodoris annae. (click here for more info)
Seeing the picture of this little guy makes me what to jump on a plane to Malaysia right now.
The size of this creature 10-15 mm. Consider this for a second. Have you looked around your dive sites for anything like this? That opens up the opportunities for diving. I would say we all have said to ourselves. "I am not diving here again! I have like two hundred dives here! There is nothing here I haven't seen." Well, I challenge that statement with the question. Have you looked for the small stuff? The creatures under the sea that aren't whales, sharks or seals. Take a dive and go slowly. Not one fin kick a second, slow. Really slow. Like stop and watch for a minute or two slow. Things will begin to move you never imagined were alive! You might find that as a cool side effect your air lasts longer. After a dive like that you may find renewed interest in the "old dives sites". To see what might be living there. Just under the tip of your nose. Now Lets Go Dive!
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