Monday 14 July 2014

Japanese Gardening - 14/07/2014


I'm not into gardening. Typically, gardening requires sunny days - I'm not even that interested in sunny days. Today's second dive might well convince me to take up gardening if all gardens were like the Japanese Gardens. Before entering Isaac had even joked that every resort on the planet has a dive site called Japanese Gardens. I'll wager they are not all like this one.

Diving with Aqaba's Anchor, this site is neatly positioned right beside the the wreck of the Cedar Pride. The array of corals here was vast and I mean colourful healthy corals. This site was also more fishtastic. Along with the usual parrotfish, lyretails etc. I saw two types of pufferfish, a young free swimming moray eel, some little surgeonfish and nudis. I'm not the best at fish ID, you'll probably be able to spot a few more varieties from the small selection of pictures below.

It was a pretty shallow affair (a max of around 17m) but to be frank I could of been at any depth I was just snapping away.


The highlight was when Isaac spotted scorpion fish in amongst some sea grass and when I couldn't sea he chased it. Well it bolted out and it's safe to say that the hand single for 'patting your shants' is universal. I'm sure I saw Isaac laugh underwater. Dive buddies that luagh at you underwater?! e must of been trying to make me feel at home. Anyway, I'll let the picture do the talking.

Two OKs

Isaac

Some kind of fish

Parrotfish

Wee fish

Pufferfish

Anemone

Sawtooth Feather Star

More wee fish

Even more wee fish

Juvenile moray eel

Juvenile moray eel

Nudi!!!


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