NUDI FALLS
Description: Nudi Falls is named after the fact that the bubbles from divers sometimes cause nudibranchs to fall of the wall above. One of the three most-dived sites (along with Nudi Retreat & Hairball), a beautiful sheer wall with a rock pile below, then a sand slope, leveling out into the main channel of rubble sprouting a forest of large soft corals. Scenically this site is unlike any other in the Strait. Many attractions here: possible Rhinopias and harlequin shrimp sightings in the channel, robust ghost pipefish, wonderpus and other muck critters on the sand slope, frogfish, pygmy seahorses, etc… near or on the wall and of course nudibranchs. This is usually the most nudibranch-rich site in the Strait. Along with Jahir, it is the most popular night-diving site (very colourful).
Depth: 20 m maximum depth
Boat ride: 7 minute
Primary marine life: wall, rockpile, sand slope, weedy/soft coral in channel
Critters: Baby Watcher, Blue Sea Star, Brittle Star, Granulate Sea Star, Anax Sea Cucumber, Synaptula Sea Cucumber, Diadema Sea Urchin, Fire Urchin, Broadclub cuttlefish, Flamboyant cuttlefish, Pygmy cuttlefish, Stumpy spine Cuttlefish, Bigfin Reef Squid, Bobtail Squid, Pygmy Squid, Blue- ringed octopus, Hairy octopus, Starry night octopus, Wonderpus octopus, Egg cowrie, Eyed Cowries, Soft coral Cowries, Spindel Cowries, Tigris Cowries, Verrucosus Cowries, Banana nudibranch, Chromodoris albonares, Chromodoris annae, Chromodoris elisabethina, Chromodoris geometrica, Chromodoris hintuanensis, Chromodoris kunei, Chromodoris lochi, Chromodoris magnifica, Chromodoris reticulata, Chromodoris sp., Chromodoris strigata, Chromodoris willani, Dermatobranchus sp., Flabellina exoptata, Glossodoris artromarginata, Glossodoris cincta, Glossodoris hikuerensis, Glossodoris rufomarginata, Gymnodoris rubropapulosa, Halgerda okinawa, Halgerda tesselata, Hypselodoris bullockii, Hypselodoris kanga, Hyselodoris maridadilus, Nembrota cristata, Nembrotha milleri, Phidiana indicata, Phyllidia picta, Phyllidiella pustulosa, Phyllodesmium briareus, Phyllodesmium jakobsenae, Phyllodesmium kabiranum, Phyllodesmium longicirrum, Phyllodesmium magnum, Phyllodesmium sp., Platydoris scraba, Pteraeolidia ianthina, Risbecia tryoni, Spanish Dancer Nudibranch, T-bar Ceratosoma trilobatum, Tambja gabrielae, Tambja morose, Thecacera picta, Thorunna sp., Chelidonura varians, Elysia ornata, Thuridilla lineolata, Amboinensis Crinoid shrimp, Anemone Shrimp, Banded Coral shrimp, Black coral shirmp, Bubble Coral Shrimp, Emperor shrimp, Gorgonian Coral Shrimp, Harlequin shrimp, Holthuisi Commensal shrimp, Humpback Cleaner Shrimp, Long Snout, Mantis shrimp, Popcorn shrimp, Saron shrimps, Sexy shrimp, Skeleton shrimp, Snapping Crinoid Shrimp, Tiger Shrimp, Tozeuma shrimp, Crinoid squat lobster, Galathea sp., Hairy squat lobster, Humback prawn, Painted Rock Lobsters, White-Spotted Hermit Crab, Boxer crab, Candy crab, Cryptodomia Sponge Crab, Cyclocoeloma Decorator Crab, Dormia Sponge Crab, Harlequin crab, Orangutan crab, Porcelain crab, Retusa Decorator Crab, Sea pen crab, Tuberculatus Xeno crab, Beaded Sea Anemone, Branching Anemone, Bulb Tentacles Anemone, Night Anemone, Tuberculate Night Anemone, Christmass Tree Worm, Acoelous Flat worm, Bedfordi Flat Worm, Byfurcus Flat Worm, Glorious Flat Worm, Barrel Sponge, Aurata Ascidian, Molle Ascidian, Robustum Ascidian, Ornate ghost pipe fish, Robust Ghostpipefish, Rough-snout Ghostpipefish, Velvet Ghostpipefish, Banded Messmate Pipefish, Banded pipe fish, Network Pipefish, Reeftop Pipefish, Stick Pipefish, Winged pipefish, Yellow Banded Pipefish, Pygmy Pipehorse or Pigmy Pipedragon, Bargibanti pygmi seahorse, Pontohi pygmy seahorse, Thorny sea horse, Pegasus sea moth, Ribbon eel, Napoleon snake eel, Stargazer snake eel, Fimbriated moray, Snowflake moray, Coral Cat Shark, Barramundi Cod juvenile, Black Saddle Coral Grouper, Blue Spotted Grouper, Chocolate Grouper, Cloudy Grouper, Double Banded Soapfish, Highfin Grouper, Roving Coral Grouper, Dotted Sweet Lips, Harlequin sweetlip juvenile, Oriental Sweet Lips, Silver Or Painted Sweet Lips, Striped Sweet Lips, Palette Surgeonfish, Circular batfish, Pinnate batfish juv., Zebra Batfish, Six Banded Angelfish, Long Nose Hawk Fish, Filamented Flasher Wrasse, Rock Mover Wrasse, Lemon Coral Goby, Comet Fish, Razor fish, Bicolor Parrotfish, Clown Anemone Fish, Orange Anemone Fish, Banggai cardinal fish, Pajama cardinal fish, Split Banded Cardinalfish, Black Spotted Puffer, Black-saddle Toby, Purcupine fish, Spotted Boxfish, Yellow Boxfish, Long Horn Cowfish, Cornet Fish, Bristle-tail filefish, Leafy Filefish, Minute or Pygmy Filefish, Whitebar file fish, Striped catfish, Giant frogfish, Painted frogfish, Warty frogfish, Devil Scorpion Fish, Humpback scorpion fish, Reef Stone Fish, Rhinopias Lacey, Common lionfish, Shortfin lion fish, Zebra Lionfish, Cockatoo waspfish, Long spine wasp fish, Angler flatfish (flounders), Welander's Flathead, Flying gurnard, Orange & black dragonet, Yellow Barred Jaw Fish, Reef lizardfish, Banded Shrimp Goby, Spotted Shrimp Goby, Starry Blenny
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