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Shorts Lumikha
This little guy was bobbing around our boat this morning for at least an hour - FAST ASLEEP!! I touched him a couple of times as he came right up against the sugar scoop and was amazed at just how hot his little flipper "solar panel" was! Seals float around like this with their flippers out of the water in the sunshine, as a way of warming up, so I thought that his flipper would obviously be warmer than our 13 degreeC water but was really surprised by just how hot it was. He was totally oblivious to my touching him over and over - super relaxed and fast asleep.
Our sister resort Papua Explorers Eco Resort has a fantastic foundation Raja Ampat SEA Centre. One project is our coral garden in front of the resort jetty. It is so wonderful to see different marine life moving in. During the last few weeks we've had a cuttlefish sheltering under the coral plantation structures. We even had a mating pair, with the female laying eggs inside some corals successfully growing on the structure shaped like a manta ray!