Good evening.
Today was another pleasant day of clear autumn skies.
But the mornings and evenings are getting really cold.
The cold when I leave the house in the morning...
is quite something, I must say.
Today we went to Ogi.
In a normal year, Ogi at this time of year should have the most seasonal visitor fish in Sado, but this year it's a poor season.
Things seem slow all along the Sea of Japan side. In other words, I guess that means the Tsushima Current has lost its strength...
It really needs to pull itself together.
That said, the seasonal visitor fish seem to be increasing little by little.
There was a school of nenbutsudai (half lined cardinalfish) that wasn't there the last time we dove, and the neon damselfish had grown a little bigger too.
The Nomura's jellyfish (echizen kurage) are as many and as big as ever...
We also saw inada (young Japanese amberjack), including a few schools, though not many.
The niramiamadai (jawfish) at Oma seem to be getting nicely used to divers.
Even when you get close with a camera, they rarely pull back in.
There's only a little over a month left to see them this year... Please come see those charming faces while you can.
The water temperature was still 20°C, with visibility around 15 m.
Dive date: October 24 (Saturday)
Dive sites: Kotoura (Kofuku Jizo and Oma)
Weather: Clear skies
Wave height: 0.5 to 1 m
Current: None
Underwater temp: 20°C
Marine life seen: kobudai (Asian sheepshead wrasse), toushima kokeginpo (a small blenny), akaobikoteguri (a dragonet), niramiamadai (jawfish), a school of aji (horse mackerel), a school of inada, sui (a sculpin), haokoze (a waspfish), red sea bream (madai), black sea bream (kurodai), kijihata (red spotted grouper), Japanese rockfish (mebaru), kurosoi (black rockfish), kitsune mebaru (a rockfish), nenbutsudai, neon damselfish (sorasuzumedai), himeji (a goatfish), himesemiebi (a small slipper lobster), kiiroiboumiushi, sarasaumiushi, aoumiushi, jibogaumiushi and shiroumiushi (nudibranchs), common octopus (madako), Nomura's jellyfish, and more
