This is the pier of Dumaguete Coconut Mill (DuCoMi). It may not be much to look at but underneath that wharf are critters and corals and fish and stuff that you never thought would thrive beside ships plying international routes.
The pillars are encrusted with anemone, soft corals and other stuff, from the bottom all the way to the top
Leaffish Elementary School These juvenile leaffish are floating at around 3 meters from the surface
These are the pillars of the DuCoMi pier in Dumaguete. That seafan is more than a meter in width!
what's a divesite without the resident school of batfish where each is the size of your face?
I was shooting at the shrimp on the whip, got the outline of the pier's coral encrusted pillar in the background instead. notice the diver in the lower left corner?
This little bugger kept gracefully turning it's back on me. I think the original color of its outline is not yellow but orange. I shot this with extra flash to freeze its movement while panning thus blurring the background a bit. Australasia Diver featured this on its cover about a year ago.
gracefully frisky little fella here, kept turning it's back on me, took about 30 shots and this is one of the better ones that came out. at two inches from upper fin to lower fin, it's a bit easy not to notice that it's there at all
Three different lionfish in close proximity. I wonder why they like the urchins?
Mating Nudibranchs
Is this the fish that's supposed to be endemic to Lembeh?
This 10-inch ugly fish has something growing out of its back
An almost surreal scene from beneath the DuCoMi pier of Dumaguete. Every pillar is encrusted with anomone and soft corals and other
