Hunting Seeking which started at 5am. Everyone was attacked by lots of mosquitoes which took no mercy to any part of bare skin. This was my first individual Hunting-Seeking activity and it was certainly no easy feat juggling the ID chart, data sheet, camera, torchlight, pencil and warding off buzzing mosquitoes with two hands.
Tidal Hermit Crab (Diogenes sp.), the usual, at the mangrove area.
The cast of an acorn worm; it looks like shit!
Flower crab (Portunus pelagicus) trying to squeeze itself between the rocks.
I have no idea what segmented worm this was.
Colonial Ascidians that were orange in colour, my first sighting.
A Flower Crab (Portunus pelagicus) that was in the process of moulting. Crabs are very vulnerable when they are moulting as their new shells are soft and would take some time for it to harden.
Gong Gong (Strombus turturella), with its smooth, clean underside and a mud-covered top.
Hairy Crab (Pilumnus vespertilio) trying, but adorably failing, to conceal beneath a blade of seagrass.
A while later my camera suddenly went berserk and wouldn't release the shutter button. I couldn't take any pictures after that, much less the subsequent creatures, the Red Swimming Crab (Thalamita spinimana) and an Unidentified anemone. Argh!
