A Fruitful Inter-Tidal Adventure - Part 1

After staying overnight at Semakau on 25 July, we went for an early inter-tidal walk the following morning at a new area we have not visited before and might give us a lot of surprises.

Indeed, I am pleased to see a Giant Clam burrowed itself in a rock, so beautiful and amazing. Looks like a rock having a big mouth with a green lip, it's really 'A Kiss of Life'.

 

 

Cryptic Rock Star was the first thing we saw when we first climbed down the rocks to the inter-tidal area, and I also found a Horseshoe Crab with it's sharp tail poking upwards, to give us a warm welcome. Unlike the StingRay, the sharp tail of the Horseshoe Crab is not harmful, it's just to turn itself upright when it's in an upside down position. The blood of Horseshoe crab is Blue in colour.

 

 

 

Spotted an Onch crawling slowly on the sandy shore, and it's also one of the biggest I have ever seen. There were also many upsidedown Jellyfish found in this area.

 

 

 

As usual, Swimming Crab is the most fierceful creature and always really to attack any intruder. I still prefer the small Fiddler Crab, especially this particular one who stayed so calm to pose for my macro shot.

 

 

 

It's good to see quite a number of Carpet Anemones in this area, showing a sign of good seawater quality for marine lifes. Missed seeing these Gigantic Carpet Anemones which I previously saw at Chek Jawa. I can find more Carpet Anemones in Semakau now as compared to Chek Jawa.

 

 

 

In my memory, I hardly found any Octopus in the usual inter-tidal area. Most of them I saw there were already caught by the Hunters during the Guided Walk. But in this new inter-tidal area, there were many different colour Octopuses spotted and I could easily see them swimming gracefully in the water. Octopus is the most intelligent creature and it's able to change its colour, camouflages itself well with the surroundings. The ink it releases has 2 purposes:
1. Confuse its preys to let them falls into its trap so that it can easily eat them.
2. Confuse its predators so that it can easily escape from them.