Video: Diving in Alor & Flores, Indonesia
A video of underwater highlights from our dive expedition to Alor and Flores, Indonesia, aboard the fabulous liveaboard Arenui.
Below is a shot list in case you wonder what you are looking at, and where you can go to see it for yourself. I’d love to hear any of your comments
—Josh
| Time | What | Where |
| 0:01 | Liz taking photos of kids swimming between dugout canoes | Yan Village, Pura Island |
| 0:08 | Kids wearing hand-made wooden swimming goggles, and giving me a “high 5” | Yan Village, Pura Island |
| 0:20 | Drift along current-swept rocky boulders encrusted with soft corals and hydroids | Greja Tua, Pura Island |
| 0:24 | Lock shot of Black-and-white snapper and Scalefin anthias on the edge of the drop-off | Yan Village, Pura Island |
| 0:33 | Approach over shallow reef to local fisherman tending a traditional fish trap | Greja Tua, Pura Island |
| 0:50 | Moorish idol and other reef fish trapped | Greja Tua, Pura Island |
| 0:57 | Xenia coral gardens swarmed by surgeonfish and Bluestreak fusiliers, just before dusk | Reta Slope, Reta Island |
| 1:05 | Typically beautiful shallow reef lining clean oceanic channel | Reta Slope, Reta Island |
| 1:09 | “Anemone City”: unbelievable number of anemones encrusting every available surface on acres of rock boulders | Valley of the Clown, Pura Island |
| 1:21 | Sea apple: a type of filter feeding sea cucumber often found in cold water upwellings throughout Indonesia | Greja Tua, Pura Island |
| 1:25 | Sea apple sucking the plankton off its tentacles | Greja Tua, Pura Island |
| 1:35 | Typical soft substrate community, visually dominated by soft corals | Waiwawan, Kawula Island |
| 1:37 | Mozambique ghostgoby and Puffer filefish are among the many species that call the soft coral home | Waiwawan, Kawula Island |
| 1:41 | The shy Puffer filefish feeds on tiny invertebrates it finds on the soft coral | Waiwawan, Kawula Island |
| 1:49 | This Giant frogfish left his coral outcrop, on his way to hide against my friend Ralph’s black camera housing | Kalabahi Bay |
| 1:55 | Frogfish use jet propulsion to swim: in the mouth, out the jet behind the pelvic fin | Kalabahi Bay |
| 2:04 | This female Compressed toby was being harassed by a male looking for love | Tanjung Wotang, Adonara Island |
| 2:08 | Swimming crinoids aren’t commonly seen, except when the place is crawling with them… | Tanjung Wotang, Adonara Island |
| 2:16 | Blackstripe dottybacks are common as dirt in these mucky habitats | Waiwawan, Kawula Island |
| 2:22 | Poison bristle nudibranchs transfer the stinging cells from their prey to their cerata (the frilly bits all over them) for their own defense | Beang Abang, Pantar Island |
| 2:29 | Sea pens stick out from the volcanic black sand slope and are home to Porcelain crabs | Beang Abang, Pantar Island |
| 2:34 | A male Delicate ghost pipefish appears to be getting very friendly with a female Robust ghost pipefish. Weird. | Beang Abang, Pantar Island |
| 2:41 | Papuan (probably) scorpionfish wearing Graeff’s sea cucumber as a boa. Also weird. | Valley of the Clown, Pura Island |
| 2:47 | Japan armina cruising the black sand looking for sea pens to eat | Beang Abang, Pantar Island |
| 2:52 | Unidentified candystripe tunicate squirting water out and closing up for protection | Beang Abang, Pantar Island |
| 2:56 | Yellowmouth moray getting some dental work done by cleaner shrimp | Greja Tua, Pura Island |
| 3:01 | Steene’s dottyback has been on my list for ages. Very cool fish with plenty of attitude. | Beang Abang, Pantar Island |
| 3:08 | Tiny juvenile Star puffer hiding from a strong current behind a small rock | Beang Abang, Pantar Island |
| 3:12 | Juvenile filefish hangs onto sponge by its mouth to avoid getting swept away in the current | Beang Abang, Pantar Island |
| 3:14 | Clown crab with a clutch of eggs appreciates a good crescendo | Beang Abang, Pantar Island |
| 3:20 | Eyespot blenny—my blenny of the week—typically predictable, easy to shoot, and entertaining to watch | Padang Pasir, Kawula Island |
| 3:25 | Blenny of the week blowing the poo and spooge out of its home | Padang Pasir, Kawula Island |
| 3:29 | Decorated dartfish are common on deep walls, usually around 30m (98′) down in rubble overhangs | Reta Slope, Reta Island |
| 3:35 | Candycane dwarfgoby waits for passing plankton | Takat Prau, Kawula Island |
| 3:40 | Orange anemonefish usually play up to the camera | Takat Prau, Kawula Island |
| 3:47 | Royal dottyback and Pictus blenny embroiled in a vicious face-off. Reps were upheld. | Tanjung Bacatan, Kawula Island |
| 3:55 | Reef squid tending its eggs on a mooring line | Kalabahi Bay |
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