Hantu Blog Log 31 July 2004

Making friends and sharing our natural heritage are Blog divers Guan (left) and buddy James.

We were all worried about the weather at first because the morning began with a storm! We ran a little behind time because it took the boat longer to get there in the stormy seas, but all was good when we arrived at the island - the storm cleared, the clouds parted and it was refreshingly beautiful.

We were greeted by a Great-billed Heron Ardea sumatrana, Brahminy kite Haliastur indus and Black-naped terns Sterna sumatrana, coastal birds which were hunting or just sitting out the storm on the island. We also heard Kingfishers calling from within the island. It was absolutely buzzing!



Stuff we saw: Honey head damsel, cardinal fish, sand gobies and their symbiotic shrimps, rabbitfish, marine worms, sea grass filefish; and while animals were hard to spot because of today's low vis, divers took the opportunity to learn more about the reefs ecology by identifying coral, sea grass, algae, tube worms and learning how to spot where a sea cucumber is sleeping!