Surveyed the reef on the western side of Hantu today. As with the previous Kusu survey, only 5 of us were on board for this trip, which meant a bit more work for me. While I am sorting through the data, Hui Bing has already posted some stuff on her blog.

The visibility was almost unbelievable at 5-6m, which made work really easy. Unfortunately I didn’t bring along my camera for this trip, so of course, all the nice stuff popped out to say “Hi!” .. two huge trevallies, two Ceratosomas, a few Red-breasted Maori wrasses (Cheilinus fasciatus), and two Six-barred Angelfish (Pomacanthus sexstriatus). Hopefully the others managed to get some nice shots of these things and will post them up soon.

In the meantime, I am mulling over how real life seems to have taken its toll among our surveyors, and most of our Scientific Officers. Many are overseas, or otherwise occupied. With the up coming departure of Marco and Ming Sheng, our situation will get more dire .. so this is sort of an appeal for volunteers to step up to the plate to be trained as surveyors, and eventually as Scientific Officers.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Cheers, Jeff
Reef Friends Team

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