A prize find for shrimp geeks was finally captured on camera at Bunaken by our in house shrimpophile Robyn. Robyn has spent the last week doing night dives around Bunaken amazed by the amount of life that comes out to play only once the sun has gone down. The basket stars have been a firm favourite as they swarm over the reef, especially once she found they were full of their own little critters.

Since spotting these shrimps Robyn had been dying to get a decent picture, but circumstances contrived against her; the basket stars would be out and she’d leave her camera behind to take out the sidemount gear. She would leave the sidemount and bring her camera and there would be no basket stars! Even, once she had built up confidence, she brought the camera with the sidemount gear and then there was too much current for photography anyway. Well finally, her patience paid off and she got this lovely photo of the shrimp artfully framed by the fronds of the basket star. The shrimp is named Periclimenes Lanipes and we think it was well worth the wait.