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Frogfish and Octopuses
![A moderately rare Giant Frogfish (Antennarius commersonii) at 25m at Kuda Miaru Thila. They vary considerably in colour. (276k)](images/wIMG_2035.jpg)
![They can open their mouths even wider than this - they can swallow prey as big as they are. (229k)](images/wIMG_2032.jpg)
![Dive leader Mara snaps the Frogfish as it swims over to another bit of coral. (223k)](images/wIMG_2037.jpg)
![A few days later we returned to Kuda Miaru Thila and found the Frogfish again just a few meters away. (141k)](images/wIMG_2518.jpg)
![On the reeftop at Kuda Miaru Thila we came across two octopus (Octopus cyanea) which were clearly bent on hanky-panky. This is one... (179k)](images/wIMG_2201.jpg)
![...and this is the other. (234k)](images/wIMG_2200.jpg)
![They are normally very wary, but these two had their minds on other things, so took no notice of us. (169k)](images/wIMG_2211.jpg)
![Here one stretches out a reassuring tentacle to the other. Aaah... (229k)](images/wIMG_2216.jpg)
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