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Plongee en, de nuit!

To conclude this series of posts dedicated to scuba diving, here are some pictures taken during my last dive Poindimié, conducted at night! After sunset, it's a different world which is offered in light of our flashlights, dominated by species that are rarely seen the day, such as crustaceans (crabs, lobsters, slipper lobsters, shrimp), shellfish, sea cucumbers in the open pickup plankton (also called sea cucumbers), feather stars, starfish and other sea urchins ... But it's also a chance to surprise diurnal animals who allow themselves much more easily approached in their sleep, such as parrotfish, which surround the night in a cocoon of saliva for isolating odors that they are so sensitive, clown fish, which bury themselves deep in their anemone to sleep, or even turtles (we had a chance to see a huge during this dive!).

Parrotfish, in its cocoon for the night Fish Rabbit clown fish under their duvet! Turtle Lobster (forbidden to pick up scuba diving course!) Cigale sea, similar to lobster Shrimp, red or white translucent Porcelain tigris Big hermit Nudibranch Holothurians Comatulids urchin " Mikado "! Pénatule, also called "sea pen" Coral mushroom, which the polyp is in full operation (here we can see its tentacles)

More than 10 days before returning home and now my ... To enter this superb residence in New Caledonia, our family is going to take a cruise of six days on a catamaran around the island of Pines in the extreme south of Grande Terre. If the sun is to the game, it promises to be unforgettable!