{"id":31,"date":"2006-09-19T12:28:59","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T01:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/31-photo-of-the-week-porcelain-anemone-crab-milne-bay.html"},"modified":"2009-02-24T12:51:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T02:21:06","slug":"photo-of-the-week-porcelain-anemone-crab-milne-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/31-photo-of-the-week-porcelain-anemone-crab-milne-bay.html","title":{"rendered":"Photo Of The Week &#8211; Porcelain Anemone Crab, Milne Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:87 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_left\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" style=\"float: left;border: 0px;padding-left: 5px;padding-right: 5px\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/marine\/P9122603_400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> This week&#8217;s photo, a Porcelain Anemone Crab <em>Neopetrolisthes ohshimai<\/em>, was taken last week during a trip to Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea ( are you green with envy yet! \ud83d\ude09 ).  This beautiful crab is actually an imposter, not a true crab but a close relative to the lobster.  Like the Clownfish, this crab has developed an immunity to anemone stings and is usually found within the stinging tentacles of a number of anemone species.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt was sheer bliss to spend a week diving the warm waters of Milne Bay aboard Mike Ball&#8217;s Paradise Sport. The diving was stunning, the service was second to none, the food was superb and the accommodation excellent! Diving, diving, diving. Even after 5 days we still had no problem fronting bleary-eyed on the deck at 7am for the first dive of the day.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOk, back to reality and some cold water again but the planning to venture north again has begun!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nUntil the next post, take care out there and keep diving ( if that&#8217;s what you do! ) &#8230;Robert \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s photo, a Porcelain Anemone Crab Neopetrolisthes ohshimai, was taken last week during a trip to Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea ( are you green with envy yet! \ud83d\ude09 ). This beautiful crab is actually an imposter, not a true crab but a close relative to the lobster. Like the Clownfish, this crab has &#8230; <a title=\"Photo Of The Week &#8211; Porcelain Anemone Crab, Milne Bay\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/31-photo-of-the-week-porcelain-anemone-crab-milne-bay.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Photo Of The Week &#8211; Porcelain Anemone Crab, Milne Bay\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}