Even though I was wearing a 3mm wetsuit, it was freezing for me! Brr! It's no wonder that many of the marine creatures probably went somewhere warmer... Despite this slight difficulty, the 3 of us still managed to spot some cool animals!
Iconic seastar lying around...
On both my dives, I was utterly fascinated by this pinkish bristle arms! I kept looking up, down, left and right to no avail! I suspected that it was a brittle star, yet the central disk was nowhere in sight or too well-hidden. I'm going to continue investigating what this actually is!
Our ever shy resident, tiger-tailed seahorse hanging onto old encrusted ropes...
Other hanging animals were this baby feather star...
... and ovulid cowrie!
Colourful flatworms such as this one above usually glides gracefully along the substrate. Sadly, I only spotted two types today...After learning a few tricks to finding nudibranchs, I made some attempts of finding some... And true enough, there were two of them on separate hydroid branches... Take a look at it!
Chay Hoon suggested that it is another Doto sp. This little one is only 3mm long!
Other pretty nudibranch included this blue dragon...
Dermatobranchus sp.
Bornella anguila - finally seen it myself! I have seen all three types of Bornella now! :D
A beauty - Hypselodoris infucata
Tiny Chromodoris fidelis
As I was about to end my dives, I spotted this fishy fellow hiding in the bottle! It was bobbing in and out of the bottle as I came nearer to it... haha...
Finally, Debby pointed out this HUGE tiger cowrie! It is an endangered animal in the Singapore Red List due to overcollection of the shells... I am really fortunate to still be able to see live specimens...
It was a pity that our other marine friends such as the wing-pipefish, other ovulid cowries and cuttlefish weren't seen... I also managed to spot a squid (just when Debby wished it outloud!). I can't wait for my next Singapore night dive! :)
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