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Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

author:Qiu Dongping

June 2, 2018 Saturday noon Rainy on a cloudy day Temperature 30 degrees

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

Not a liberal arts student, write these diaries, the text should be spent a little, it is indeed a little difficult, or the flow of the account.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

It's been almost a month since I came back, half of the dive diaries have not yet been written, and the new dives have been several times, and I really don't know when I will finish it.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

Well, no more complaining, write it.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

The picture above is a scoundrel, also called a frogfish, there are 41 species of tarsieres in the world, this dark green, the picture book actually does not have this species.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

I call this double-banded clownfish, which is red and black, and then 2 white bands with stripes. This is positive, there are also two varieties of red double-banded clownfish and black double-banded clownfish.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

I didn't think so at the time, but looking at the photos, the soft corals at this dive site are very beautiful.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

Of course, soft corals are extremely rich and diverse, and it is a pity that Chinese has a very limited understanding of soft corals, let alone research, and there are no scientists or scholars at all to subdivide the spiny soft corals into specific different varieties.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

Is this a sea squirt? It was also the first time I had seen such a beautiful sea squirt.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This is not a butterfly fish, this is a horned sickle fish, one of the most common reef fish in Southeast Asia.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This is a horned coral, which I like to call kaleidoscopic coral.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This soft coral, one orange, one pink, beautiful.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

These spiny soft corals seem to have a jade-white or jade-yellow trunk.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This orange, but the spike is different, it's magical.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This is such a large trunk, the spike is a little bit smaller, special.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This is coral, but it is not a reef-making coral, this should be the skeleton of a sunflower coral.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This is not the same soft coral.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

These corals, like jade carvings, are very rounded and very beautiful.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This pink-purple soft coral, the spike of thorns is also infinitely tender.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This is the sea fan...

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This is a different soft coral, it's magical. It feels like these soft corals, like plants on land, are diverse and easy to have new varieties.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

The trunk of this soft coral, white and with glittering strips, is so beautiful.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

It's like a big cabbage, a little hesitant is this a soft coral? Or is it just coral? Or is it not coral?

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

Soft corals are different again, with common features such as a jade-like rounded trunk.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

It seems that the more I look at the photos, the more I like it.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

Really colorful, and different soft corals.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

Is this a soft coral? Or a sea fan?

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This is a sponge, what kind of sponge? Wait, I'll look it up, oh! It is a smoke window sponge.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This is also a sponge, the sponge is soft, this I will not check what sponge, do not waste time.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This is a hard coral, what kind of coral? Pointed branches are columnar corals.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

Small fish come and go freely in soft corals...

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This should be soft coral, what kind of soft coral is it?

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

It's like a kaleidoscope coral, but certainly not, what coral?

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This should be a groomfish, right?

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This is another suspicious soft coral, or a sea anemone, anyway, there is no examination of what it is?

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This is......

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

sponge......

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This pattern of the sea hare, and the red packet gong, red beauty, red Dong Shi sea slugs are not the same Oh, later for this sea hare to take a name.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

This is the flute snapper, in order to distinguish other similar flute seabream, it can be called four-star flute seabream.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

Dogfish, huh?

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

Beauty shrimp.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

Silver-backed clown, or white-backed clown.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

Japanese po, can also be called black saddle puffer.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

Greystone spotted lion.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

It's the Red and Black Clowns.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

Sea cucumber, do not know what sea cucumber.

Dive Diary (163rd Dive) - Those beautiful soft corals, The Mint dive site kalipayan

Final computer table record: 11:58 minutes diving, the deepest 19.6 meters, diving time 45 minutes, the average depth of 12.4 meters, water temperature 29 degrees.

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