Diving in the Celebes sea between Borneo and the Philippines offers plenty of encounters with large marine wildlife like giant groupers, turtles, trevallies and also the occasional cuttlefish and octopus. During the past week I had traveled to Semporna, a growing fishing town at the south-east of Sabah from my hometown of Miri, Sarawak to check out some of the dive sites available nearby. For the two days that I dived, I managed to surprise myself with creatures I've never really seen before.
I got ecstatic when I spotted a juvenile (by turtle standards) hawsbill turtle swimming about probably looking for some food. We sort of chased it around the reef hoping to get a good picture of us and it together. Taking photos underwater is hard!
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| Sibuan island |
For the first dive day, we went to Sibuan island to the north of Semporna. It is one of the most beautiful little islands I have been on with crystal clear waters and white sandy beaches. It is quite the place to be for learner divers with it shallow waters. However, you know tourists or humans have been there too often as you find trash on the sea floor and being washed onshore.
Divers usually see plenty of sea anemones and its resident clownfish pairs. There is also a patch of the sea floor where a colony of sea urchins have made a home of.
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| Clown fish on a sea anemone. |
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| Long beaked butterfly fish |
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| Sea urchins |
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| Trumpet fish |
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| Hawkbill turtle |
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| Us and the hawksbill turtle swimming along just fine. |
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| The turtle got annoyed with us so it hid under a coral |
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| Huge school of fish |
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| Crown of thorns. The eater of corals |
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| A pair of shrimp |
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| Sole. A species of flatfish. Both its eyes are on the same side of its body. |
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