Jeff's Blurp

What a great day it was! The weather was perfect, the seas calm, the viz decent, the entertaining company of old and new friends, and a couple of really good dives. And yes, the big storm on the way home was spectacular! I thoroughly enjoyed my fresh water open air shower!


Many crinoids this time! Adorning Giant hydriods and baby Gorgoniams!

It was nice to dive the north side of Hantu for a change too. It was great to see the small sea fans and sea whips along the sandy bottom at around 11 -14m, although sparse. It shows that our marine life here in Singapore is resilient, but still disappearing. There are many Neptunes Cup sponges hugging the reef slope along this side too, and some are quite large! The crest of the reef between 3 - 5m along this side is particularly impressive. The large boulder corals (i will let the marine biologists fill in the names for me), were HUGE and HEALTHY. A great mix of massives, submassives and foliate corals, mixed with pockets of kelp made a great home for the many damsel fish inhabiting this area. No wonder they were aggressive! Didn't want me to invade their last bastion of marine garden!

Can't wait for the next dive, and hope the marine biologists can join us more often!

Thanks again Deb!

Jeff is a volunteer divemaster-guide with the Hantu Bloggers.