Raja Ampat - October 2016

Five plane rides, a two hour boat ride and several days later, you're in West Papua, Indonesia for some incredible diving. I enjoyed ten days of diving at Papua Explorers Resort on the island of Gam. If you want to see massive schools of fish - jacks, fusiliers, parrotfish, butterfly fish, you name it - this is the place to come. Hope you enjoy the photos that follow.

  • banded_shrimpgoby
  • banded_toadfish
  • blue-girdled_angelfish
  • cave
  • coral_crab
  • cuttlefish
  • decorator_crab1
  • decorator_crab2
  • decorator_crab3
  • dendritic_jawfish1
  • diagonal-banded_sweetlips
  • dragon_sea_moth
  • electric_clam
  • emperor_angelfish
  • false_clown_anemonefish1
  • false_clown_anemonefish2
  • fire_dartfish
  • flatworm1-polyclad
  • flatworm2-polyclad
  • flatworm3-pleasing
  • giant_clams
  • giant_moray
  • hawksbill_turtle
  • hermit_crab
  • leaf_scorpionfish
  • longfin_bannerfish
  • longfin_spadefish
  • marbled_shrimp
  • naia_pipefish
  • nudi1-anna's_chromodoris
  • nudi2-phyllidia
  • nudi3-phyllidia
  • nudi4-leopard_chromodoris
  • nudi5-nembrotha_kubaryana
  • nudi6-thecacera
  • nudi7-blue_dragon
  • nudi8-halgerda_batangas
  • nudi9-funeral_jorunna
  • nudi10-creamy_chromodoris
  • pier1
  • pier2
  • pinnate_spadefish
  • pygmy1-denise
  • pygmy2-bargibanti
  • pygmy3-denise
  • pygmy4-bargibanti
  • pygmy5-pontohi
  • ribbon_sweetlips
  • rockmover_wrasse
  • sapsucking_slug-plakobranchus
  • scorpionfish
  • signal_goby1
  • signal_goby2
  • spanish_dancer1
  • spanish_dancer2
  • spider_crab
  • spinecheek_anemonefish1
  • spinecheek_anemonefish2
  • sponge_crab
  • striped_triplefin
  • titan_triggerfish
  • winged_pipefish
  • wobbegong1
  • wobbegong2
  • wobbegong3
  • wrasse_goatfish
  • yellow-mask_angelfish

Some Topside Photos

  • between_dives
  • dive_boat1
  • dive_boat2
  • dive_boat3
  • dive_center
  • edi_moses
  • huts
  • lunch_stop1
  • lunch_stop2
  • resort_pier
  • sandy_cay
  • village1
  • village2
  • village_kids