Creepy, Crawly Exotics: Lembeh

[kandace]

In November 2010, several members of the Houston Underwater Photographic Society (Hups) including myself ventured to Indonesia, actually a large island, called Sulawesi, to dive the bio-diverse waters of Lembeh Straits. Lembeh is well known for being the muck diving capital of the world. And, that's NOT a bad thing, it is a term coined to describe those small creatures that dwell in primarily black lava sand environments.

Lembeh is legendary for where to find the creepy, crawly exotics, and may I also add STRANGE. Actually, it could be the world epicenter of weirdness, with numerous bizarre creatures like this peacock mantis shrimp.














For more on Lembeh, please visit my travel blog at Kandace: The Wandering Photographer

[DigitalScape]

Excellent images, Kandace!!! Fantastic colors, sharp. I hope you are printing these large sized!

[kandace]

Thanks, John for the nice kudos.

Actually I will have several of these underwater photos plus my nature photography on display at the Edloe Cafe, West University Place, TX, in April and May, 2011. Please drop by if you are in the neighborhood.

[groovyone]

Stunning shots! LOVE that first one. I totally missed this thread until Audrey posted about it.