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Sarit Reizin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:00:00 +0000

hermit crab overgrowing with actinia

Sarit Reizin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:00:00 +0000

cuttlefish

Sarit Reizin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:00:00 +0000

hairy frogfish (Antennarius striatus )

Sarit Reizin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:00:00 +0000

coconut octopus aka veined octopus

The Universe in the Eye of a Sleeping Puffer Fish

Sarit Reizin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:00:00 +0000

We Dove and Went to Heaven

Sarit Reizin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:00:00 +0000

The underwater floor was black and grey speckles. Here and there brown rocks coated with green algae crudely stuck out of the bottom creating a depressing landscape with nearly no visibility. No colorful coral, no big fish, nothing to knock your fins off, unless… Unless you take a closer look.

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painted frogfish yawning

Lembeh Diving Gallery

Sarit Reizin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:00:00 +0000

And Once Again… Diving!

Sarit Reizin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:00:00 +0000

And once again into the blue,
into the red and the maroon,
into what wiggles and what bites,
and breathes with gills and has no plight.

I dive, look up, and wish mutation.
A simple swift transfiguration.
One that would allow to breath,
to stay beneath, and live like fish.

Bunaken Diving Gallery

Tangkoko

Sarit Reizin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:00:00 +0000

After a short detour to Malaysia we flew straight back to Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island. We simply couldn’t stay away for too long – this part of Indonesia has some of the best diving spots and my fins were itching for a dip in the deep.

Being reunited with meant running through the forest again, and though we were still sore from Taman Negara, that’s just the sort of sacrifice we make for old friends. was with us as well. And we felt whole again among the closest of our nomadic friends.

Tangkoko was the usual laid back Indonesian National Park with no fences or gates but only a shack of a park office and rangers who were very surprised we didn’t stop by. We slept in an abandoned house in the forest, a stone’s throw away from a black beach, and as usual enjoyed sneaking around for a swim or a night walk, hoping to spot big eyes in the canopy. Unfortunately, the rangers did discover us in the morning but I bargained and the price of our freedom was included in a paid walk with a guide to a tree where the tarsiers lived and posed for pictures.

Tangkoko National Park Gallery

Komodo Dragons

Sarit Reizin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:05:00 +0000

We came, we saw, we left unimpressed. The endemic, deadly, and last of their kind – Komodo dragons – were sunbathing right next to the staff kitchen and couldn’t care less about what was happening around them. “You are so lucky to see them, he-he” said our mandatory guide wielding a big stick. “Don’t they always hang around here?” I asked knowing very well (from several online reports) they most certainly do. “Yes. You are very lucky. Maybe they not here today, he-he,” replied the guide.

mating season