Cayman - Picture of the Day

[caymaniac]

Yes, that Hero3 looks like something I would love to try as well.

Here's a colorful image that I took off Grand Cayman:

 

[vincent54]

Early morning, Long Beach Cayman Brac Ground Boa. Probably looking for Geckoes in the Sea Grape trees. Usually find them under rocks.

 

[caymaniac]

Coloration, the ability to change your spots with the light or the texture of the background is a specialty of the Peacock Flounder, Cayman Brac.

---------- Post added February 18th, 2013 at 01:33 PM ----------

Coral banded shrimp on Flame scallop, Little Cayman

 

[-hh]

Hugh, did you ever make it inside the wreck they used to have at East Chute off the west side of the Brac?

Yes, I've been inside the wreck the Cayman Mariner before it collapsed (or bow got torn off). Here's an old pic of a friend, Bea Wilcox, coming out of the bridge...sometime in the 1990s:

FYI, there's an old anchor buried in the sand not far from where the Mariner's main hull still lies...

To navigate to it, go to where the Cayman Mariner's bow SHOULD be (if it were still attached), then swim forward & right - - along the sand/coral edge. IIRC, the anchor is buried in the sand, parallel to the edge (fluke away from the Mariner), probably 30-40-50? feet from the wreck. I usually spot the coral/sponge encrusted fluke sticking up out of the sand and then look for the shaft ... it depends on the sand movement as to if the main shaft (laying horizontal and parallel to the 'edge') will be visible or not.

I'll have to dig up a photo of it, as it is pretty hard to spot the first time.

EDIT: found one pic ... not very good for locating it, but it gives you an idea...I'd probably use that Sea Plume (left) as a landmark reference .. it is on the Cayman Mariner's side:

-hh

 

[caymaniac]

A common scene, yet a beautiful relationship. The bar jack follows the stingray and as the stingray digs for it's dinner the bar jack benefits a side meal. Cayman Brac.

 

[Testudo]

Don't think I posted this one already...

 

[caymaniac]

The eel garden off the east side of the Russian wreck, Cayman Brac.

 

[Insta-Gator]

At Turtle Reef there are many hundreds of garden eels, more than I've seen anywhere else. It's fun to try to sneak up on them to see how close you can get before the disappear into the sand.

 

[caymaniac]

There are many types of Goby's, this particular one is very common. This type often poses nicely for photos, the Bridled Goby, Cayman Brac - south side

---------- Post added February 22nd, 2013 at 06:49 AM ----------

Trumpet Fish come in different colors, some of the colors at Cayman are:
Blue

Yellow

orange/red

 

[-hh]

Here's another one from the days of film....

Fall 1996 .. I believe that this might have been taken at Magic Roundabout on Little Cayman.

I've had this one hanging up as an 8"x12" Ciebachrome print (remember those?) for several years.

Nikonos V, 15mm, ISO 100 slide (not sure which kind).
I'm also not sure when/how this one was scanned; file was dated March 1997.


-hh