Aja Radl Photography

It is not a pipefish and it is also not a seahorse... It's a pipehorse! The evolutionary link between a seahorse and a pipefish!
This time, my buddy Martje Bakker captured me photographing it... showing just how tiny this fascinating creature is...🤣

I was already feeling super chuffed because let me use her camera... which, as all photographers will concur, is a huge thing and an honour! ... and then nature gave us this present!

A first for me... Sargassum Nudibranch...
What a gorgeous and elegant creature it is! Nature is amazing😍

Striated Seahares everywhere... I swear some of them looked really guilty about being caught "in flagrante"... 🤣
Did you know that Seahares form long, trailing "mating chains" where individuals act as both male and female to the partners in front and behind them?

This was my holy grail!
Some of you know how much I have wanted to see a Scaly-tailed Mantis Shrimp! 😁
Finally! Thanks to

I struck gold today!
What stunning colours!

I am a rock! The rough box crab has perfect camouflage... But this one also proudly showed me his specialised tools for eating snails! He has a "can opener" claw on his right and a pincer to pluck the flesh from the crushed snail on his left. Can you see it? Isn't nature amazing....