{"product_id":"b25-rudi","title":"Rudi","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e5\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e May 2024.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eThree minutes into the safety stop, I found myself suspended in the water at five meters with nothing to do but watch bubbles climb toward the surface. That is when I saw him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eHe was parked on a finger of soft coral, no bigger than my thumb, but he lit up the reef like a neon sign after dark. He had magenta frills rippling along his back, a stripe of electric blue down his spine, white and black tentacles waving like he was conducting an orchestra, only he could hear. A nudibranch, and clearly not a shy one.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eYou've got good timing, said a voice in my head. Not a sound, exactly, more like a thought that wasn't mine. I nearly spat out my regulator. Ah, the voices again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eRelax. Breathe. I am a fast breather underwater, and my tank never lasts as long as it should. He rippled, and all of a sudden, we were in comms. Bula, the name is Rudi. You like my frills? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eWe talked, or whatever you call it when one party is exhaling bubbles and the other is a sea slug beaming thoughts through saltwater. I was only getting every 3rd word, and it seemed Rudi was having a great rant about an octopus who lived two reefs over. Then he asked, with what I can only describe as a wink and a pulse. “Got plans tonight uncle?”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eReef Party. I’m playing. Be there. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eI was questioning my own sanity and short of oxygen, so I surfaced, swam to shore and cracked a cold beer. What just happened? I showered and went for dinner. The nightcap was a bowl of Kava, and that was when curiosity got the better of me. In for a penny, in for a pound, so I strolled down to the water's edge and felt if I am doing this, I will go nude as it would be rude not to. Swimming in under the stars and using only my memory where we met on the reef's edge, I started to feel a buzz in the water. Wait, is that music? Not really music, but a high pitched, slow pulse rolling out from the coral below. Bullseye. I held my breath and went down. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eTo my amazement, the most incredible gathering of nudibranchs were bopping and glowing having a rave. At least 100 of them. All different colours and it was wild.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eRudi saw me coming and gave me a nod as he played his decks. I received his telepathic message. \"Bula uncle! You made it! Welcome to the party. Look but don’t touch.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eI stayed down for as long as I could hold my breath and all I know this, just off the sandy beach at Nukubati on the Great Sea Reef of Fiji, there's a very stylish sea slug named Rudi the Nudi who throws a better party than most people I know. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eVinaka.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joe Bananas","offers":[{"title":"Small","offer_id":48389846696181,"sku":"b25_rudi_Small","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium","offer_id":48389846728949,"sku":"b25_rudi_Medium","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large","offer_id":48389846761717,"sku":"b25_rudi_Large","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":48389846794485,"sku":"b25_rudi_XL","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":48389846827253,"sku":"b25_rudi_2XL","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4XL","offer_id":48389846860021,"sku":"b25_rudi_4XL","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0031\/4726\/8163\/files\/Untitled-design_-_13.png?v=1787195104","url":"https:\/\/www.joebananas.com\/products\/b25-rudi","provider":"Joe Bananas","version":"1.0","type":"link"}