110827 Semakau

Hitched a ride with the dive team's boat. While the divers made many interesting sightings including a new sea star and an unusual sea anemone, the rest took the opportunity to see what terrestrial creatures would emerge at dusk despite the wet weather.



Some of these plovers were running about the flat rocky stretch on the seaward side. The lower bird looks different now that Marcus pointed it out, the beak shape looks more like a red-necked stint.


Pacific reef egret, dark morph?


Great billed heron.


Scarab beetle.



Not sure what these are, they look like some sort of hymenopteran nest.


Spider guarding her eggs.



Crab spider. It was actually running along a web strand before settling down on this twig.


Salticid.


Oxyopidae. Most of the lynx spiders in the grass near the hut at the entrance of the trail seemed to be this type.



Grasshoppers.


There were some mantis ootheca on the benches of the hut.


Marcus spotted this death head hawk moth just as we were about to leave.

More sightings by Ria, including some photos of the dive team's awesome underwater photographic gear.