It's gettin' hot in 'ere!

The mass coral spawning at Raffles Lighthouse over the past two days was just outstanding! The Hantu Blog was kindly invited by the NUS to witness and document the event...







Apart from the fantastic spawning, we also saw heaps of cool animals like octopus, slipper lobster, sauron shrimp, squid, sweetlips, black tip reef sharks, nurse sharks, mango snappers, indo-pacfic humpback dolphins, GTs, and a hawksbill...


Pardon the poor quality, this is a video still, shot at about 20m


They came really close!


Another video still. It didn't take much for us to shake this big hawksbill out of its sleep. The flash of our lights on this night dive sent it swimming away very quickly.


Little baby nurse shark


Sweetlips

The coral life at the lighthouse was equally magnificent. Several of the marine biologists and myself commented that diving there didn't feel like a dive in Singapore. BUT IT WAS!


Gorgeous coral cover!

"The water's so clear! It's like Tioman!" hollered the lot of us. I thought it was like Manado's house reef. Jani liked the wall exploration from 16m down. Each day we'd itch for the nightdives which were fantastic!



200 of the world's 700 coral species can be found here at Raffles Lighthouse alone! In an area .5% the size of the Great Barrier Reef!



Bye bye Raffles Lighthouse... Thanks for sharing your seas...