Blow wind blow.... Big Sisters

A cool evening to Big Sister's Island... Last night's tides were not too low, so the group of us explored around the shallow lagoon... It was particularly windy! The rippling surface of the waters made it difficult for me to venture any further... I saw quite a lot of critters despite the rippling waters and slity waters - three-spined toadfish, flower crab, red egg crab, a lot of red ribbon worms, brittle stars and fishes!

The best find for me would be this creature here... What is it that has eye spots??

It's actually a flatworm! Ria also seen this flatworm before and gave it the name: Slit flatworm. It is just so different from the usual flatworms and I'm not too certain if it is a different order of worms...

Anyhow, the Acanthozoan sp. flatworm was spotted by myself and Russel... We couldn't decide if this was two or one individual. haha...

Not many special snails were seen except for the pink moon snail (below) and wandering cowries...

The only interesting coral I found would be this juvenile mushroom coral! Ria also took a photograph of the same individual! :D

Besides the sessile animals... I also saw some fast-moving animals such as these burrow-dwelling fishes... Here is a beautiful goby - Slender-lined shrimp goby (Cryptocentrus leptocephalus) sitting quietly outside its burrow.

False scorpionfish!

Transparent shrimp...

Juvenile false clownfish with its fellow shrimp companions...

Head-stripe goby (Amblygobius stethophthalamus)

Tides came too fast while we are finding more animals! Kok Sheng found the Moon-headed side gill slug! Awesome!

By the end of the trip, all of us were starving like this Sally-lightfoot crab eating on a polychaete... Yikes! :P

Chasing the next tide soon. :)