Emperors Reign

Unexpected rain and shifting winds has made diving possible this past week along Gorontalo’s southern coastline. This has come just in time for special guests from Thailand. Even though visibility has been degraded by the bad weather of the last week (15 meters), the fish were out in force. At our Honeycomb dive site meter-long Lose-nose Emperors (Lethrinus olivaceus) came up from the deep to feed with schools of other fish. Stuck onto the wall, a cushion starfish hosted a number of dark, hump-backed shrimp that turned out not to be Emperor shrimp but possibly Periclimenes solor. We also dived the Traffic Jam and Alleyways dive sites today.