This was another day of four dives. Our morning fun dive was the best of the
trip. Lots of schools of fish, no hurry, and we saw an amazing array of fish.
Our dive books have great detail of each of the dives and what we saw. We also
had "naturalist" and "navigation" skills dives for our course. The naturalist
was great-we were just out looking for creatures. Jason and I ended up winning
the contest by seeing an amazing anemone with pink anemone fish on it (clown
fish) as well as a wrasse cleaning station where a bunch of yellow-tailed
fusiliers were stopping in for dental hygiene and general cleaning. On the navigation dive Jason and I had some communications problems and ended
up surfacing to get back to the group. The night dive was great. Jason saw a
five foot shark. If you looked closely at things, there were all these small
crab/shrimp/crayfish type creatures hanging out on the coral, jumping around
like bugs. Their eyes would shine back at you like red dots when you shone your
light on them. A lot of the filter feeders were also out with all their body
parts fully inflated. It was great to surface under a night sky, looking up at
the moon and stars as you swam back to the ship for dinner. |