First a couple of photos for the nieces and nephews:
A bit of the atmosphere on the dive center and dive boat:
Romain and Shayne with our world travelers. Great story on how they met-becoming divemasters!
Ali giving the dive briefing on the dive boat.
Me looking awesome trying to keep the sun off my white skin
The dive tanks and dogball and duck
Turtle (obviously)
Scorpionfish-very dangerous.
Bubble anemone and clownfish
Me
An idea of the kinds of things you see-starfish, sea squirts, soft and hard coral...
Do you see the octopus?
Hard to see through the sediment, but that is a 2.5 meter manta ray
Watch the video Sandip took of the manta ray
Porcupinefish (watch out-it's dangerous!)
Spotted eagle rays. They look like they are "flying" in formation. Very strong current here.
See below for cool video of eagle rays. I am having formatting issues.
Me holding on to coral, watching the eagle rays riding the current
Swirling fish
another shot
More bubble anemone, clownfish (though might be imitation)
There is a fish in this picture. I promise
You can see it here with different exposure.
Our view when we pop back up
Totally cool
This is one of my favorite photos. Sandip the merman!
Hello turtle!
isn't this so amazing?
This is a whale shark. Total vegetarian and we rode 90 minutes in speedboat hoping to see this. We did. It is huge-like 5 meters long!
Opening mouth to gather plankton
Video
Gives you a sense of size
Odd couple
Giant Oyster
Reef shark-a sign of healthy reef
Oriental Sweetlips
Those antennae are for shrimp. The white/green small things you see around the picture are sea squirts
Pin cushion star fish. It eats coral, especially baby coral. Baby coral are by the way white and look like mucusy eggs. I thought we had a picture, but didn't find it. Our underwater sign was swinging arms like you are holding a baby.
Lionfish-very dangerous.
Leaf fish on some coral. our first time seeing this fish.
Great shot to give you a sense of the entire thing.
Love this coral! Oh wait-see on the left of the photo on the hot pink it is kind of white/murky? That is our baby coral!
Thanks for going under the sea with us!
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