Four Days of Diving!

Mornings, afternoon and twilight dives on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Reef location: Casuarina Point Reef @ Don Foster's Dive. Very active reef with many Tarpons, Turtles, Snappers, Black Groupers amongst many others. Every dive we saw something awesome! Here are three pictures that show some of what we were entertained for almost two hours on each dive. One picture (Tracy's) shows a Connie while eating what it may be a Blue Tang or perhaps a Chromis (not sure). The other picture shows a White Nose Pipe Fish that we found Sunday and then again Monday! Third pic shows the invasive Lion Fish so common now in our waters.

Until next dive!

Silver Sides and big fish!

We spent last Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday diving the reefs from Casuarina Point to Eden Rock. We dove at different times of the day including two dives a day. We carried our cameras and the dives were a Photo Fest. So many fish! Lots of Tarpon all around, over 300 Horse eye Jacks, a couple of the caves and tunnels by Devils Grotto were packed with Silver Sides. We encounter a Goliath Grouper and also several Black and Purple Mouth groupers. One big Black Grouper was even schooling with the Horse Eye Jacks for a while during the late afternoon. Small and big turtles modeled for us to practice our much needed photo skills. Another big size fish was a Dog Snapper and also a beautiful Crevalle Jack cruising along.

We also enjoyed watching a lobster, small blennies and hermit crabs.

Even though we were watching our bottom time as we wanted to be conservative, each dive was over one hour and a half! So much to see and enjoy in only 35 feet of water. I can't wait to go back on Friday!

Until next one.

Turtle Farm Mini Wall

Another great shore dive! Lots of Tarpons in the Tarpon Cave offered great photo ops. We observed a synergy between Sand Gobies and shrimp. The shrimp worked tirelessly digging out debrie from their den. In an area of one square foot we saw two gobies and two shrimp. The gobies seemed to be acting as a "watchman" while the shrimp dig out. Also we saw a flounder during a hunting run and eventually capturing his prey.

A very curious Golden Tail Morey allowed us to interact with her for a few minutes. Also on the way back, over the shallow hard pan but very close to the mini wall, we found a fish from the Durgon family that I believe we seen before in the deep waters of the 12 Mile Bank. Not so common to this area.