These are the best images from my 5 week trip to Wakatobi, Alor, Flores and Komodo in the Fall of 2005.

More images from Wakatobi or Alor and Komodo

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Indonesia children at Maumere, Flores. A old lady sits in front of her home on a island in Wakatobi. Villagers come to great us as we leave an island in Wakatobi. The village has no fresh water source and they get all ther water from the rain during the rainy season. A pygmy seahorse. A pygmy seahorse. A blue spotted stingray. Clownfish on the reef. Close-up of the eye of a crocodile fish. A cuttlefish. A little girl rides in a cart full of coconuts near Maumere, Flores. The town of Wuring near Maumere on the island of Flores. The villagers are from the island of Sulawesi and are sailors trading items between the islands. A volcano on Flores. I had just finished a dusk dive and shot this while waiting to get picked up. A volcano on the island of Flores. A seahorse in about 3 feet of water near Alor. Ribbon eels. A porcelain crab. A mandarinfish. A octopus crawls along the dark sand at night is search of prey. A close up of coral. Batfish swim around near a boat wreck on Flores. Batfish A juvenile ribbon eel with very bright coloring. Octopus A devil fish. They are a scorpionfish and have poisonous spines. They are rarely seen because the often burrow into the sand. I saw this one below a dock in the town of Maumere, while on a night dive. A devil fish. They are a scorpionfish and have poisonous spines. They are rarely seen because the often burrow into the sand. I saw this one below a dock in the town of Maumere, while on a night dive. A mantis shrimp. A croinoid shrimp. A shrimp goby and cleaner shrimp. A oranatange crab. A juvenile filefish about the size of a pea near whip coral. A lionfish patrols his part of the reef. A frogfish blends into the background. A coleman shrimp on a fire urchin. A squat lobster under a croinoid. A clingfish on a croinoid. A pygmy seahorse. A crocodile fish face.