BIO

The pygmy seahorses (Hippocampus bargibanti), called also «gorgonian’s seahorses», are really very very small since their size is approximately one centimetre, tail included.

Hippocampus Bargibanti

They are very difficult to see because, in addition to be tiny, they are very mimetic. They look like, indeed, with the sea fan in which they live as much for their skin’s color, pink, silver plated or yellow, that for the polyps which seem to cover them. (more…)

August 2007

We leave for the south of the France, go to the French Riviera. Very quickly, the hot and sunny weather of the south contrasts within the north.

As our arrival in Cannes, many diving centres draw our attention :

 - At Golfe Juan, the “Golfe plongée club” will make you visit the more than interesting diving sites of Antibes cape.
The old trawler of the centre is balanced under the swell, the spray splashes and environment is sympatic. Exceptional sites such as the “Fourmigue” or the “Fouillée” await you on the littoral. Murenas, groupers and others nudibranchs are obviously at the rendez-vous.

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The receipt :

→Take a plane for Singapore →At Singapore, take a plane for Manado (Island of Sulawesi) →At Manado, take a plane for Kupang →At Kupang take a plane for the island of Alor.
Arrived at the airport of Alor, take a car for landing stage. At the landing stage, welcome by Gilles Brignardello founder of Alor Resort, Chargement of the luggage on its boat for crossing Pantar’s strait.

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ZEBRA CRAB in a Fire URCHIN
Zebrida adamsii
PANTAR island, indonesia

Small crab with a typical brown and white zebra colour pattern. Smooth carapace, whit deeply incised edge. It looks like a robot. Spiny legs and claws, the last segment of the walking legs, hook shaped, hangs the crab onto the urchin spines. Carapace lenght 2 cm.

Antennarius maculatus

Would you like to see the slide show - Wonderful Marine Life of Indonésia - which contains some frogfish photographs ?