Fascinating night dive at Wofoh North was our best

16.03.2020

Wunderpus octopus; one of the main reasons for selecting the Wofoh North dive site was its reputation as home to the wunderpus; this species was only discovered in the 1980's and was really cool to watch

Candy cane sea cucumber; I'd never seen this beautifully colored species before; they grow to about 2 ft. by primarily eating plankton

Frogfish; Indonesia has the greatest number of frogfish species; frogfish generally do not move or swim very much, preferring to lie on the sea floor and wait for prey to approach

Helmet gurnard; the pelvic fins act like legs as the fish walks along the bottom of the ocean in search of clams, crustaceans and small fish to eat

Easily the largest hermit crab I've ever seen; as the hermit crab grows in size, it must find a larger shell and abandon the previous one; several hermit crab species have been observed forming a vacancy chain to exchange shells

Plakobranchus ocellatus sea slug; at one point in the dive my flashlight disturbed thousands of fish which then started flying at our group like locusts!; they were pelting us so hard we quickly retreated

Tiger sea cucumber; this night dive was great because we just explored the sandy sea floor making it easier to find different animals; the dive was also relatively shallow so we could stay down longer

I lucked out getting to see several wunderpus octopi on this dive; they are nocturnal feeders but once spotted would often just totally retreat into their burrow