串本のダイビングポイント / Asaji

I was able to meet for a long time.

I can also enjoy diving today.

October 27, 2023

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Weather: Sunny
Ground Temperature: 15~24℃
Water Temperature: 23~24℃
Wind Direction: Northwest(3m/s)
Swell: 1.0m
Visibility:10~12m
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It was so nice day today!!
We can dive with wetsuit now.

Then, there are various shrimps today.

I was able to find shrimps.
In Kushimoto, this shrimp usually live in sea cucumber.

And this shrimps are living in star fish as usual.

When I check a picture, I notice that three shrimps are on star fish!!!
I didn’t find out that!!!

And, I met rare eel that hide in the hole for five days.

I think it run away from 5 days ago.
But, it still stay at the same place.

When the eel is growing up, the body color change from black to Blue.

At last I will how you beautiful sea slug.

I will start the event that is called ” umiushi-search “”.
I try to find sea slug as much as possible in a whole dives.

If you like sea slug, please join this event!!!
It should be fun!!!

The weekend will start from tomorrow.
We hold the camera seminar tomorrow and day after tomorrow .

Many guest will come to our shop!!
I will enjoy diving tomorrow also!!!

 

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串本の生きもの

Yellow mouth moray, ribon eel, Seastar shrimp

串本のダイビングポイント

Good Wrasse world, Ni-No-Ne, Asaji

Nice day!!!

Today is so nice for diving.

September 16, 2023

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Weather: Sunny
Ground Temperature: 26~31℃
Water Temperature: 25~28℃
Wind Direction: Southwest(5m/s)
Swell: 1.0m
Visibility:15~20m
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It is so nice day today!!
The sea water is so clear and warm.

So our guest can enjoy diving  without feeling could and stress.

There are so many fishes in Kushimoto area now.

Especially , The number of green fish is very lot !!!
You can see this fish in all of diving point.

And there are many baby doubled-line fusilier in the pint of out of ocean.
The body color is silver, so it is so beautiful.

Also, you can see macro creatures now.
Today, I show our guest so tiny creatures.

First one is crab. It has sponge on their back.
It shake their body, when it feel stress.

And sea slug is also tiny.

These size is about 2mm hahaha

I’m happy when I could find tiny creatures.
I try to find tiny creatures tomorrow as well.

Then, Foreigner tourist and guest willl come to our shop tomorrow and day after tomorrow .

I will enjoy diving with them.

See you then(^^)/

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串本のダイビングポイント

Bizen, Asaji, Ichi-no-Ne Higashi

Enjoy diving today!

The swell is not getting bigger.

September 3, 2023

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Weather: Sunny
Ground Temperature: 25~32℃
Water Temperature: 26~27℃
Wind Direction: Northeast(3~6m/s)
Swell: 1.0m
Visibility:8~12m
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The weekend finished today.
The swell was not getting bigger than yesterday.

So, we can enjoy diving easily.
At first dive, I went to out of the ocean.
There are so many fishes.

Especially , greenfish is so lot!!!

After first dive, I went to bayside dive site.
There are various of macro creatures now.

The baby frog fish is popular among Japanese diver.

I cannot check tiny frog fish today.
So, I wanna check if the frogfish are staying at the same place.

Also, other rare macro creatures are still seen.
If you like macro creatures, this season is the best to dive, I think.

But, forecast said that the swell will be getting bigger tomorrow.
I hope I will be able to dive in a whole day.

See you then(^^)/

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串本の生きもの

Giant Frog Fish, Greenfish

串本のダイビングポイント

Bizen, Sumisaki, Asaji

Summery sea

the visibility and W.temp is so good!!

August 30, 2023

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Weather: Rainy→Cloudy
Ground Temperature: 25~28℃
Water Temperature: 26~28℃
Wind Direction: Southeast(3~4m/s)
Swell: 1.0m
Visibility:12~25m
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It was heavy rain in this morining.
But, the visibility is good.

I went to out of the ocean in the morning today.

There are many fishes in the dive point I went in the morning.
And the water is clear. So I can see far area easily.

Recently many butterfly fishes are in one of the bay site dive point.

This dive point has so many corals.
The scene is so beautiful, isn’t it?

Kushimoto coral reef is the northern part of Honshu Peninsula.
I hope many foreign tourist to know this view.

In the summer season, our dive site has many kinds of charm.
So, If you come or stay in Japan, please come and visit us.

See you then(^^)/

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串本のダイビングポイント

Good Wrasse world, Asaji, Isuzumisho

Nice weekend

The sea condition is so good.

August 28, 2023

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Weather: Sunny
Ground Temperature: 24~29℃
Water Temperature: 25~27℃
Wind Direction: Southeast(3m/s)
Swell: 1.0m
Visibility:12~20m
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Many guest come to our shop in this weekend.
The sea condition is so calm.

So, our guest enjoy diving in a whole day.

Recently, there are many baby fishes in our area.

This is Bluelined angelfish.
When it grow up, the color is changing completely.

The frog fish that I could find yesterday is still in the same place.
The color is so beautiful.

I hope the frogfish is staying at the same place for a long time.

Now, there are many baby jawfish now.
It is so tiny and cute!!

At last, I will show you rare fish.
Have you ever seen it?

The fish is very unique shape.
The name is Short dragonfish.

It is so rare.
But it i good at hiding, so it is so hard to find it quickly.

I will go to out of the ocean at morning tomorrow .
See you then(^^)/

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串本の生きもの

frogfish, jawfish, Short dragonfish, Blueline angelfish

串本のダイビングポイント

Bizen, Good Wrasse world, Asaji

The sea water is blue!!

The visibility is very good!!

July 29, 2023

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Weather: Sunny
Ground Temperature: 26~33℃
Water Temperature: 22~27℃
Wind Direction: East(3m/s)
Swell: 1.0~1.5m
Visibility:10~25m
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It was nice day for diving today.
I went to the dive point of out of the ocean.

The visibility is very good!!
It is 25m!!!

And there are many kinds of fishes.
We can see many Greater Amberjacks and rainbow runner.

Sometimes, they attacked silver striped round herrings.
The scene is so dynamic !!!

Our guest was so excited to see it!!

At end of the dive, we can also see many Double-lined fusilier!!!

I hang out with school of fishes in a whole day!!

Now, the visibility is so good.
I think you can enjoy diving in Kushimoto now!!

Please come and visit us!!!
See you then(^^)/

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串本の生きもの

Grearer

串本のダイビングポイント

Bizen, Ni-No-Ne, Asaji

The scenery of the sea has become like summer

The condition is getting better and better.

July 24, 2021

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Weather: Sunny
Ground Temperature: 26~31℃
Water Temperature: 21~23℃
Wind Direction: East(1~3m/s)
Swell: 0.5m
Visibility:10~15m
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The water temperature changes daily for a few days.
But, today, it become warmer than yesterday.

The scenery of the sea has become like summer.
I have been able to see many tropical underwater creaures.

On the other hands, we can see various of sea slug in summer season.
It causes low water temperature I think.

We can see many sea slugs in winter season as usual.
But, many sea slug can be observed in this year.

On the top of rock, there is a Anthias.

Sometimes, Male fish can also be seen courting female fish.
When he do so, he swim so fast around female fish.

It is very interesting !!!

On next weekends, the guest from overseas will come to our shop.
I hope the water temperature is getting warm.

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串本のダイビングポイント

Bizen, Asaji

Hammer head sharks were appealing

We can meet hummer head shark at out of the ocean.

June 25, 2023

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Weather: Sunny
Ground Temperature: 21~27℃
Water Temperature: 23~24℃
Wind Direction: Northwest(3m/s)
Swell: 1.0m
Visibility:10~15m
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Today’s sea is so calm.
And It was sunny day today!!

So, we can enjoy diving in a whole day.
I wonder if such a day will be continuing everyday.

Today, we can see many hummer head shark at the point of out of the ocean.

There are many sharks. Our guest was happy to see them.

On the other hands, we can also see many macro underwater creatures in the bay side dive point.

In a deep area, there are many goby.
They live in a hole with pistol shrimp. If you can take a pictures with together , you are so lucky!!

And I show our guests that situation .
I like this situation. That’s why it is beautiful back ground.

If I can dive in this dive point, I take a this picture every time as much as I can.

And There is Moss fringe head. The body color is so beautiful!!
I like this fish.

Others, there are many kinds of sea slug as well.

So, you can see various of fishes and  another underwater creatures now.

Now is nice season for enjoying diving in Kushimoto, I think.

See you then(^^)/

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串本の生きもの

Moss fringehead, Orange-striped shrimpgoby, Ficopomatus enigmaticus, Pikachu seaslug

串本のダイビングポイント

Bizen, Good Wrasse world, Ni-No-Ne, Asaji, Same-no-hire

Spotted Eagle ray

We went to the point of out of the ocean for a while.

November 22, 2022

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Weather: Sunny
Ground Temperature: 15~21℃
Water Temperature: 22℃
Wind Direction: North(3m/s)
Swell: 1.0m
Visibility:10~12m
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It was sunny day today and the ocean is calm.

So, we went to the point of out of the ocean for a while.
There are little bit current but we can enjoy diving.

Luckily today I encountered a spotted eagle ray right after I started diving.

It’s very big, so we can observe easily.

After that, we can so many kinds of schools of fish.

We can see many fishes in the point of the out of ocean.

At third dive, we went to bay side point.
There are many kinds of macro creatures.

For example, sea slug.
It’s tiny in this season.
When you observe it, it’s better to use micro scope.

At last, I can find new baby Longnose hawkfish.

The body is clear.
It’s small and cute(^^)

You can also see various creatures such as frog fish.

As winter approaches, the number of guests from overseas is increasing.

We look forward to welcoming everyone .

Bye(^^)

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串本のダイビングポイント

Bizen, Sumisaki, Asaji

The Sea water is blue(^^)

Water is blue!!

July 27, 2022

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Weather: Sunny
Ground Temperature: 25~32℃
Water Temperature: 22~25℃
Wind Direction: Sortheast(3m/s)
Swell: 1.0m
Visibility:10~20m
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Now, Kushimoto’s sea is so beautiful.
The blue current is coming to Kushimoto area.

You can clearly see divers in the distance.

It’s so beautiful , isn’t it?
I hope the visibility will continue forever.

There are so many fishes.
It looks like Okinawa.
You can come to Kushimoto by 3 hours from Kansai airport.
Shall you come to Kushimoto?

And the other creatures is also here.
There are many boxer crab at the point of out of the ocean.

I can find 6 boxer crabs in a dive.
I guess there are more in the point.

The diving season has come and the number of guest from oversea has increased .
I hope more foreign guest know the goodness of the sea of Kushimoto.

We look forward to your visit.
Thank you for reading this blog.

BYE(^^)


串本の生きもの

Boxer crab

串本のダイビングポイント

Bizen, Asaji