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Fish and Coral Reefs

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    Generosa Litton
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yellow gobiesCute pair of yellow gobies

Anilao boasts not only nudibranchs and muck critters, it also has beautiful reefs and a variety of fish that would wow the non-photographer diver 🐟 🐠 🐡.

My favorite coral reef sites for this trip include Sombrero Island, Koala, Mainit Corner, and Arthur's Rock.

While diving Sombrero Island, we saw schools of fish like the ones that my buddy Linda Elliott photographed below.

Diver photographing a school of fish

The site also had large sponge barrels. Thank you Linda for being my model!

Diver with sponge barrels in the backgroundDamsel in sponge barrelCute damsel fish in a sponge barrel

Check out this elusive moray eel. Peekaboo!

Eye of a moral

Now I see you!

Eel in front of sea weedIt looks like this eel is wearing a seaweed/plant wig 😂!

Tiny fish were also spotted like this juvenile boxfish.

Juvenile boxfish

And this longnose hawkfish hiding in a soft coral.

longnose hawkfish

I got to see an octopus during the day which is so rare and fun 🐙 🐙 🐙!

octopus

The highlight for me was seeing blennies! We spotted several (up to eight) inside the holes of a brain coral at the Koala dive site.

blennie

And another at one of the muck dive sites, Octo point, taking residence in a bottle.

blennie in a bottle

More cute fish and blennie pics here.

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