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Flamingotongue

I spotted my first Flamingotongue during a night-dive at the house reef of Sun Reef Village on Curaçao: Boca St. Michiel. The Flamingotongue is a nudibranch of 1 to 5 cm that can only be found in the Caribbean Sea. We saw this animal quite often in books and was very high on our wishing list when we went diving in the Dutch Antilles. The orange with black spots that you see is a mantle (soft tissue) what the slug throws around his hard shell. It feeds itself with polyps that he grazes of soft coral.

Cutter

The first dive abroad on Bonaire at Front Porch. With a visibility of 100 feet or more in crystal clear blue water you see the cutter lying at the housereef of Wannadive Bonaire very quickly. Beautiful fish swimming around you and the only thing that you hear are the bubbles that you exhale. A superb first dive. Only there’s less coralgrowth here. But the coral and the marine life at the many divesites on Bonaire are compensating this. Bonaire is also been called the shoredive paradise. The shorediving is made so enormously easy over there.

underwaterphotography by Lambertus Ras

Flamingotongue

Cutter

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