Dave was nice enough to take us out the same area where we got pictures of the short Big-eye's....surface was about the same as the week before, but the vis was about half of what it was last week.
First dive was interesting for two issue... one was that we dropped right back down on all the short Bigeye's.. and second because a 7 or so foot bull shark was patrolling up and down the reef. Every time it would pass me, it would get just a small amount closer. Never stopped... just swam by and would come back some minutes later.. in the end it was about 2 ft from me...
Seems I did not get my camera set correctly, as I was somewhat distracted by the shark... but I did get some pictures.
Next dive was way in shore, near the rubble, and the vis went down as the cloud of 3 ft stuff moved into the area.. not many pictures, and we called the dive early.
Next day... same conditions... so we went back to the same area, only this time, way to the east...did back to back dives...and while the vis was not as good as the week before, was reasonable.
On this dive got to see a new eel (for me anyway).... a honeycomb moray... deep water moray, not known to be on a reef.
Had two spectacular dives... and finally found one of those orange anenome's... so I carefully looked around it for shrimp and/or crabs..nothing... so I took a picture of it... and later discovered they both were there (need to turn a light on to look for stuff).
Also finally got to see a reef mantis shrimp... they are the same color and size as the purple blenny's...no wonder I never saw them.
Octo's are still really wary of divers.. had one turn it's beak to me...
So, some images:
First the anenome... look at the bottom left for both shimp, and above it, the crab... arggggg.
There were basket star fish everywhere.. here are some of the different colors:
Here is one of many of the short bigeyes:
This is the only animal I have ever taken an image of that I have to turn down the color saturation on.
The eel:
There were frog fish everywhere... and I have some ok images... but am sure everyone has seen average images of them.
Lots of Nudi's out grazing:
Found several corkscrew anenomes.. with peterson shrimp on them (thankfully):
Got tired of taking pictures of all the scorpion fish:
Octo giving me the evil eye:
I know they live here, but always surprised when I see one:
I have no reason to take any more damsel fish, but like the practice:
First dive was interesting for two issue... one was that we dropped right back down on all the short Bigeye's.. and second because a 7 or so foot bull shark was patrolling up and down the reef. Every time it would pass me, it would get just a small amount closer. Never stopped... just swam by and would come back some minutes later.. in the end it was about 2 ft from me...
Seems I did not get my camera set correctly, as I was somewhat distracted by the shark... but I did get some pictures.
Next dive was way in shore, near the rubble, and the vis went down as the cloud of 3 ft stuff moved into the area.. not many pictures, and we called the dive early.
Next day... same conditions... so we went back to the same area, only this time, way to the east...did back to back dives...and while the vis was not as good as the week before, was reasonable.
On this dive got to see a new eel (for me anyway).... a honeycomb moray... deep water moray, not known to be on a reef.
Had two spectacular dives... and finally found one of those orange anenome's... so I carefully looked around it for shrimp and/or crabs..nothing... so I took a picture of it... and later discovered they both were there (need to turn a light on to look for stuff).
Also finally got to see a reef mantis shrimp... they are the same color and size as the purple blenny's...no wonder I never saw them.
Octo's are still really wary of divers.. had one turn it's beak to me...
So, some images:
First the anenome... look at the bottom left for both shimp, and above it, the crab... arggggg.
There were basket star fish everywhere.. here are some of the different colors:
Here is one of many of the short bigeyes:
This is the only animal I have ever taken an image of that I have to turn down the color saturation on.
The eel:
There were frog fish everywhere... and I have some ok images... but am sure everyone has seen average images of them.
Lots of Nudi's out grazing:
Found several corkscrew anenomes.. with peterson shrimp on them (thankfully):
Got tired of taking pictures of all the scorpion fish:
Octo giving me the evil eye:
I know they live here, but always surprised when I see one:
I have no reason to take any more damsel fish, but like the practice:
Still that is an awesome photo, what kind of fish is that?
