I've carefully selected them, but there are a lot of photos, so just quickly looking through the images is fine!
Hello everyone! Mei here ('◇')ゞ
The other day, the members who went to Ogasawara returned to the mainland for a vacation, so we had a club activity.
We went to NANA in Hayama! ♪
I had been wanting to go for a long time, so I was super excited.
Little Seaweed Blenny.
The visibility had decreased compared to a few weeks ago, but there were so many subjects to photograph.
We would photograph, move, photograph again, and then move to the next creature... the guide was incredibly thorough ( ；∀；)
Cool, bright red Seaweed Blenny
There are so many similar species of Nishiki-subeyokoebi
that I can't identify them by myself... lol
By the way, this is roughly the size.
A slightly brighter orange on top of orange. If you didn't know, you'd pass it by.
We saw a lot of sea slugs, and this one, which I hadn't seen in a while, is a Shoujou-umiushi.
There's a similar species called Hanashoujou-umiushi, and the first time I saw it was at Hirasawa's Awashima boat dive.
I found a moving seaweed on a reef that had become barren because the seaweed and anemones had died.
It looked exactly like a "Tatami-gami" (curse god), so when I learned its name, I was like, "Huh? Shoujou?!" Ghibli's Nausicaa and Princess Mononoke are my top two.
This is the commonly seen Mitsuirameri-umiushi, and cutely enough, it was moving a crab's shell. When I found it, it was in a more photogenic spot, but it walks too fast.
I felt like someone was watching me, so I looked around.
Was this the owner of the shell? It was staring right at me.
Perhaps a Slipper Crab? It was about the same size, so it must have been its doppelganger.
The Doto racemosa was a hot topic even before we entered the water.
Its Japanese name is Fusamatsukasa-umiushi. The scientific name sounds cooler, so Doto racemosa.
It's all jumbled together, and it's hard to tell where one individual begins and ends. There are also a lot of eggs.
The Tsurugachigo-minoumiushi preys on those eggs. Probably my first time seeing it. I'd seen it in guidebooks, though.
I associate it with orange, but this one was whitish. Apparently, it's rare.
It's a species that eats the egg masses of other sea slugs, and on the opposite side, there was an orange individual buried in an egg mass.
I still need to observe the Millennium Pinecone Nudibranch more carefully.
I knew its name. It was on the map, and I had looked for it. But I couldn't find it.
Now I know why. Back then, my eyes weren't as trained, and it's huge.
I thought it was hard to tell where one individual began and ended, so I took a wide shot, but it still doesn't seem to show the whole thing.
I thought a few of the white fluffy parts were one individual, and that there were several individuals. But apparently, the stem-like part in the middle is its body. A little creepy, lol.
What is this thing? Next time I see it, I want to observe its whole body carefully.
I had a really great time playing like this. It was incredibly fun.
Everyone is busy, so it's rare for all of us to get together, but we can talk about creatures with the same enthusiasm,
so I'll save up some more unknown creatures for next time.
Finally, a heartwarming scene.
Once again, the princess healed me, and I played a lot with Try-kun.
Tomorrow, I'm going to WET to prepare for Mikomoto at the end of the month.
In charge: Matsumoto Mei ('ω')ノ
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