Ever wondered why this pretty and unique crab is called a boxer crab, or sometimes pom-pom crab instead of other names?
Let me give you a hint – look at it’s pincers. Does it look like a boxer’s gloves or it’s holding a pom-pom? That’s where it’s name come from.
It’s not a gloves nor it’s a pom-pom. The crab is actually holding a stinging anemone corals on it’s pincers to protect itself from it’s preys.
The crab in the first photo is very small; about 1cm from it’s left to right leg. The crab in the second and third photo is slightly bigger, about 2.5cm from it’s left to right leg.
View On Top of A Boxer Crab - © Bernard Loke
Boxer Crab - © Bernard Loke
Boxer Crab - © Bernard Loke
Orang Utan Crab On A Soft Coral - © Bernard Loke
This little crab is about 3cm in size and very active. It kept jumping around and often fell off the soft coral making is a quite hard to photograph. With every 2-3 shots, I need to pick it up from the sand and place it back onto the coral again.
Nevertheless, it was really good photographing this little crab as it’s really unique; because it looks like a orangutan!
I saw it during my first dive in Manado but I did not manage to have a good photograph of it because there were too many divers with the camera. Luckily enough, it appeared again on my last dive of the trip. Otherwise, it’ll need to wait until my next trip.
A Pair of Young Harlequin Shrimps - © Bernard Loke
We found these two harlequin shrimps while diving at the Laras Casse House Reef in Manado. They were so active moving around that the dive guide spent several minutes arranging them side by side for the camera.
Halimeda Ghost Pipefish - © Bernard Loke
Look properly and see whether you can spot it’s eyes.
I came across this unique species of ghost pipefish on 3 dives throughout my entire trip to Manado.
At first, I was pretty clueless the when the dive guide pointed this leaf to me. It was right beside the green Halimeda algae and I thought to myself,
Why are you pointing a leaf to me?
Then, he moved one particular leaf away from the rest and only then did I know it was a fish. It was about 5cm in length and the head pointing downwards. I didn’t know it was called a Halimeda Ghose Pipefish until we did our creature identification after the dive.
Hippocampus Severnsi - © Bernard Loke
Say hello to my new tiny little friend, Hippocampus Severnsi, or commonly called Severn’s Pygmy Seahorse.
I first met him while diving at 16m depth in Tanjung Mandolang in Manado.
It was hiding at one of the sea fans and my dive guide was pointing it to me with his fingers but I can’t see it. So I went nearer and nearer and I thought, where the heck is this little pygmy?
And there it was, less than 1cm in size.
Upper Level Deck at Berlin Haupbahnhof - © Bernard Loke
Berlin Haupbahnhof, or Berlin Central Station is the largest station in Europe. It was opened on 26 May 2009, just weeks before the World Cup Finals were held in Germany. Currently, it serves the InterCityExpress, InterCity, RegionalExpress, RegionalBahn and S-Bahn trains (almost all types of train you can find in Germany).
