Monkey Fish?

Ahhh… and another fabulous mystery solved for me… I found a very very very strange critter while diving in Lembeh Strait (only a few dives, and my fist in this ‘critter haven’)… Nobody I showed it to on the dive, nor to whom I described it afterward was able to tell me what it might be.  It was almost indistinguishable from the silty bottom on which I found it… and if it hadn’t been for a slight movement that I caught out of the corner of my eye, I might have overlooked it altogether… It was an oddly round shape, almost like a head with no body to speak of… kinda of fuzzy/furry, like it was wearing a coat of the seafloor.  And it waddled… I’m not kidding… it was sort-of walking/struggling along on it’s rounded pectoral fins.  I wrote it off to an anomaly, possibly a deformation of a scorpionfish or something… BUT, have just found out that it has a name:  Monkey fish!  How appropriate… and apparently it’s quite rare to encounter, so now I feel even more lucky!  Of course, I didn’t have my camera on that dive, but have found a few pics since to add here to give you an idea… apparently I saw it at the height of it’s camouflaged state… when it sheds its ‘coat’ it looks more like this!