On a scrap yard

Sand, grass, sand, grass, used tire, metal box, bottle of coca-cola, box for vine, old cage... Nice sortiment. Even thought and maybe because of it is this place my favourite diving site. I look all around here, also inside tires and I am still discovering more and interesting inhabitants of this human waste. Someone of you maybe know that this is not some terrible lake in Czech republic but scarp yard in Dahab bay. I study the sea bottom, On sand live such incredible creatures. Lots of different species which you can´t find somewhere else or just very rarely and with great luck. This is place full of life even you don´t think so for the first time to be here.
What was it? I must see badly, but not, the sand is really moving. I look carefully and sudenly I see. This percect mimicry help flounder to be invisible. Flounder is relative to soles. I like to watch it during swimming. Try it also sometimes. It lies on sand, than quickly goes from it and swim away above the sand. It always rises something like antenas- maybe it help flounder with manevuvring. For me are the best inhabitants seamoths. Weird animals moving on bottom by their blue-like-wings fins. Always in pairs, I never see them alone. Most life is around tires, among these ,,homelesses“ are favourite. Old sinked tires are home for anemones with clownfish, octopuses, shrimps, moray eels and as a shelter they are used by lots of fishes. Even peppered morays which live solitery are here living in groups. Like a small block of flats. Metal boxes are domain of lionfish. Here in this waste is nothing useless, even a bottle of coca-cola is perfect home for small moray. Grass is also very interesting. There are lost of various creatures hidding among grass-blades. Here you can find sea horses holding to grass or small ropes. One pair is holding each other and dance a wedding dance. Before I could make a photo they stopped and goes to different directions. From sand you see heads of snake eels, eels and red sea sand divers. To find and make a photo of snake eels is dificult. The small head of eel has keen sight so when appeared danger it could hide in sand. Above snad bottom you can see mating squids. I never miss this performace. Males tentacles go red and catch a female to make a new generation. Sometimes you can find lied eggs.
Pokemons (nudibranchs) are very common here. You can find rare species and also very common species. From small ones even to the big ones as chromodoris, wart slugs, flabellinas etc. I even find here Mexichromis multituberculata. It seems like it got lost, because they live near Sri Lanka, Japan and Indonesia. Dahab Scrap yard is a paradise for photographers and biologist. Sea cucumbers have red shrimps on their bodys also does sapnish dancer. Very weird fish called anglerfish lives here also. This fish looks like sponge or coral. It could eat a lionfish as big as anglerfish is. The hunting method is unique. Sits on coral reef, waving with a kind of bate. Lionfish come close to look if it could eat and than anglerfish suck unaware lionfish. I also find here walkman. Fish belonging to same group as scorpionfish and lionfish. Inimicus filamentosus (latin name) is beautiful but also dangerous because of poisinous stings. Among corals lies crocodile fish, scorpion fish and stonefish. Stonefish is one of the most venomous fishes of the world. Sometimes a blue spotted stingray appears and also more often electric torpedo ray.
This palce is really magical and when you know what you can see and how you have to watch this underwater micro world it is just amazing. Various species of crabs, shrimps and others small animals. Babbies of pufferfish and others fishes. During every dive I discover something new. Most of divers think that there is just waste, but also exist divers who know about this mysterious world here. And when I say taht wy go to the Scarp yard they immediately check if they have full battery in their cameres. Here they will need it.