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
Surfacing inside a cave during The Passage dive.
- coral_crab
- cuttlefish
Cuttlefish laying eggs.
- decorator_crab1
- decorator_crab2
- decorator_crab3
- dendritic_jawfish1
Jawfish with eggs.
- 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
Spadefish at odd angles.
- marbled_shrimp
- naia_pipefish
Notice one of the pipefish is carying eggs.
- 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
Sawanderek jetty.
- pier2
Sweetlips under the jetty.
- pinnate_spadefish
- pygmy1-denise
- pygmy2-bargibanti
This one is pregnant.
- pygmy3-denise
- pygmy4-bargibanti
- pygmy5-pontohi
- ribbon_sweetlips
- rockmover_wrasse
- sapsucking_slug-plakobranchus
- scorpionfish
- signal_goby1
- signal_goby2
- spanish_dancer1
- spanish_dancer2
Emperor shrimp on Spanish Dancer.
- spider_crab
- spinecheek_anemonefish1
- spinecheek_anemonefish2
- sponge_crab
- striped_triplefin
- titan_triggerfish
- winged_pipefish
- wobbegong1
Tasselled Wobbegong shark.
- wobbegong2
- wobbegong3
- wrasse_goatfish
A Redbreasted Wrasse following a feeding Longbarbel Goatfish.
- yellow-mask_angelfish
Some Topside Photos
- between_dives
Passing time between dives.
- dive_boat1
- dive_boat2
- dive_boat3
- dive_center
The resort's dive center.
- edi_moses
Edi and Moses - our guides for the week.
- huts
- lunch_stop1
Our lunch stop one day.
- lunch_stop2
- resort_pier
- sandy_cay
Spending surface interval on a tiny sand bar.
- village1
- village2
- village_kids