Lembeh & Raja Ampat

A great combination of muck diving and reef diving in Raja Ampat with Shannon Conway and a great group of keen divers and lovely people from around the globe.

Our first stop off was in the Lembeh Straits with the operator who is constantly on the move to improve Nad Lembeh.  As always in Lembeh we focused mainly on the great macro subjects here, though I couldn’t resist a little go at shooting a day of wide angle photography.

Straight after Nad Lembeh we took a flight east to Sorong and boarded the Mermaid to head out around the Raja Ampat.  We were well looked after by a great crew and given enough freedom to head to a few places not usually visited by the Mermaid.

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Masses of fish around jetty | Triplefin on coral | Sea fan and swimthrough | Shafts of light through roots | Emperor shrimp on sea cucmber | Pair of gobies in a bottle | Crab feeding in soft coral | Fish in mangrove roots | The rare black sailfin goby & shrimp | Crab in soft coral | Veined octopus . This octopus can bury in sand or mud but frequently hides in shells or pieces of discarded coconut shells | Nudibranch - Glossodoris averni | Crinoid and sea whips | Crinoid and fish | Blue and yellow fusilier | Nudbranch - Hyselodoris apolegma pair. | Crinoid | Crinoid or featherstar | Striped catfish school feeding on sea bed. | Manta ray | A rare Rhinopias sighting in Raja Ampat | Sea fan | Soft coral and fish school on jetty | Denise pigmy seahorse | Garfish reflection | Fish swarm in reef crevice | Algae shrimp | Weedy pigmy seahorse | Mushroom coral pipefish | Archerfish in the blue | Archerfish and shallow reef | Tailspot blennie | Nudibranch | Fish school around jetty | Reef scene | Coleman shrimps on fire urchin | Reef scene | Fish school |

The images below are Diving 4 Images in chronological order as the adventure unfolded.

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Tiger shrimp on soft coral | Pughead pipefish in Galaxea coral | Hard coral texture | Juvenile pinnate batfish | Whip coral shrimp | NAD-5457.jpg?fit=695%2C462&ssl=1 | Sea star textureSea star texture - Halityle regularis | Flabouyant cuttlefish feeding | Rare white hairy frogfish | Pair of Phylodesmium rudmanni | Cryptic shrimp in crinoid | Hard coral texture | Seahorse | Emperor shrimp on sea cucumber | Soft coral polyps | Shallow coral scenery in Lembeh Straits | Shrimpfish school | Blue lined snappers | Ribbon reefgoby (Priolepis vexilla) | Pygmy seahorse | Dottyback face on | Pink eye goby | Reef scene & giant swimthrough | Sea slug on sponge | Sea fan texture | Ambon scorpionfish at night | Cuttlefish at night | Spider crab at night | Wobbiegong shark on plate coral | Coral reef, island & jetty | Shallow coral reef scene | Brain coral and island | Jetty, fish & soft coral | Schooling fish under tender boats | Against the flow | Schooling fish under tender boats |