Lembata, Timor, Indonesia, August 2012

Some young entrepreneurs

Some wood canoe

Smoking volcano

Komodo, under the sea every body is happy

Everything O.K.

Taking pictures while snorkeling, but what is it?

A Cuttle fish

A turtle 

Moray, not friendly..

Lots of fishes

more

Lion fish, no touching, very poisonous 

Shark!!!!! it's ok, it is White Tip Shark, you can touch!

Frog fish

Sea Urchin

More on the Komodo, Giant Manta Ray flying, Video by Bret

Komodo under the sea at night.

Lobster, ..

Shrimp

Ray

Octopus hidden in the crack of the rocks

Squid

More on Komodo

OK!!!!!!

Do you see it?

Sea Horse

still ok

Giant Manta Ray

Jelly Fish

Komodo

Yep !( Gone Sailing)

Taxi ride to go to town

Kanawa

the captain, in his underwear...as usual

On the look out for reefs

The dark blue, where the boats are anchored is 10m deep and more, the light blue are patches of sand about 10m, and the brown patches are corals, see picture below..

Corals!

Dragons in Komodo

Visit of the Komodo Dragons, largest lizards, carnivorous with a venomous bite, they can measure up to 3 meters....

They just hang out and wait for prey to walk by

Their saliva contains strains of bacteria very virulent, preys die within few days of a bite

Godzilla!

They can smell a dead prey up to 10 kilometers... 

Dragons prey on water buffalos

and deers