Friday, July 16, 2010

Raffles Lighthouse

Had the privilege to go on an exploratory trip to Raffles Lighthouse; it is, by law, out of bounds to the general public.
Pictures are in random order, my camera died the other day and so some aren't my pictures, some were from my camera phone, and some were from my sucky 4megapix old camera.

Cushion Star (Culcita novaeguineae) underside.
Cushion Star top. Cushion stars are sea stars belonging to the Echinoderm phylum.
The coral reefs
Octopus! my first sighting =D. There's a couple of them at that place.
Could be a Black Sea Cucumber (Stichopus hermanni)
Red algae sprawled around like this
A really pretty coral that wasn't given justice in this sucky picture
Zoanthids
Pseudoceros sp. A tiny little worm

A Nudibranch, i forgot what species >.<
Branched Tentacle Anemone (Phymanthus sp.). There were other anemones as well but argh, no good pictures so i decided not to post them.

There were different varieties of crabs, pretty corals, fishes and other biological life as well. Unfortunately my pictures weren't up to standard. bleah.

Raffles Lighthouse.
The stairs in the lighthouse
Window
Entrance to the top
The light that guides the boats and ships.
Overlooking the pier from which we arrived.
Corals that are supposed to look nice here >.<"
tada!