Yassalaba, Un an aux bouts du monde
Alberic and his friends published their book from their round-the-world trip. They came back on July 16 and its already there. I’m going tonight to their arrival party in Paris. It can be bought directly from Ecritures for only 17EUR. For the record, I met Alberic while diving in Koh Tao, Thailand, in august 2003 while on my round the world trip, a few weeks before he left for his adventure. We exchanged a lot of emails while on the road as he was going on my track in a few places and I could give him some handy tips. He also managed to stop in Bora-Bora to dive with François, a dive instructor I met in Dahab in january 2003 and who left shortly after to work at Bora Dive.
I haven’t seen a lot of nudibranches and flatworms in this trip but diving in nudi falls I expected to get a few snapshots of new species (for my personal database at least). I was not disappointed with the Hoplodoris nodulosa or the Glossodoris rufomarginatus. I did not have time to ids all of the critters because I can’t find the time and resources to do so efficiently. Of course frogfish were there as well as the Banggaai cardinalfish.
This ghost pipefish was a first to me, as I have never seen one in post-larval stage (we thought at first it was a different specie, until I looked for more information). You can see it still being fully transparent. It was a mission just to take a picture of it as it was driving me nuts by swimming around me, up and down. I stayed for more than 15 minutes doing what Mike called on 
