I’m the only person who saw this nudibranch, and no one was able to identify it from the photo.  I couldn’t find it in any of the reference books, so maybe I discovered a new gastropod!  Or not.  I’m good either way, but if the former, I think nudibranchia hardwired would make a good name. This […]

I’m home, after about 35 hours in planes, airports, and buses.  (The trip out took 44 hours, so coming back I was lucky.) Though I’ve had a couple nights in my own bed, I’m still cross-eyed with jetlag, a totally screwed-up sleep schedule, and readjusting to living at altitude. So why don’t you look at […]

These are “waruga,” the stone tombs of the Minahasa people of North Sulawesi.  The earliest date from around 900 CE, and the latest from the early 19th century, when the Dutch put a stop to this form of burial on the grounds that it was contributing to an epidemic. The deceased was laid to rest […]

I was diving with a group at night on the black volcanic sand, and I saw this nudibranch cruising over the pebbles.  I tried to attract the attention of the others, but they were too busy playing with their $10,000 cameras, so I was the only one who got the photo (with my relatively cheap […]