Following too close and go to your room!

Giant Porcupine Fish.  It swam away.  I have these mad skills with animals. But seriously, these guys have a major bite, so I'm glad it didn't accost me.

 Lizard fish #1. Just sitting.

Male box fish. We really like these fish.

 Snowflake moray eel for Siouxie Sue!

Christmas wrasse

This fish is actually a Sergeant Major, but I call the little one Sergeant Minor. Awfully cute!

Brighteye Chromis.  I see scadzillions of these and love every one.

 Very small Raccoon Butterfly fish. maybe 2 inches long.

Hebrew Cone. It is already starting to get gunk on it...look at the blue at the thick end...

 Find the tiny Humu

Another snowflake.

 Trunk fish female.

Juvenile Rock Mover. They are so like seaweed, it's sometimes difficult to know what they are! They move with the water, too, so it's hard to get a great picture.

Drupe.  I couldn't be sure no one was in there (look at the part missing on the right), so I put it back down. Love that purple. The dotted purple is my dive glove. Actually a gardening glove, but I make do.  Just on the left hand, in case I have to pick up something gnarly...like glass.

 I think this is a Manybar Goatfish. I don't usually see a face.

This little Leaf Fish apparently had done something wrong and was told to go to its room. 

 Juliana's Sea Hare.

The head...same animal as above.

Somebody done lost their mask's glass...bummer

 Bleached coral...also a bummer.

This poor brittle star was exposed when a rock moved surprisingly under my hand.  I had thought it was anchored...sorry little guy!

 My fave Trigger Fish...the Picasso. Love these guys. This one was about 2" also. Running fast, too.

Honu. Just out of the water in the kiddie pond...

This is the glass I picked up today. Oh yeah, and the operculum and shell bits! Another good reason not to walk on the bottom.

Bluefin trevally following a goat fish too close! (Just like those visitors in town for the Marathon...don't get me started...)

Have fun while you're in town! Stay healthy....

Take a look at your pinky finger....

OK, stop reading for a second and take a look at your pinky finger.  See how small the nail is?

This Drupe shell was smaller than my pinky finger nail! Oh, so cute and also tiny. And now that I'm looking more carefully, it might be a small basket shell...

Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse with no customers...

Octopus 1. look for the white circle and then the eye. Hiding well, eh?

Octopus 2. Again, look for the white circle, the siphon. And def hiding well.

Lizard fish. I didn't see the little guy when I dove down to pick up some glass and he shot away from my hand like a cannon!

Cone shell, halfway buried. (And probably alive.)

The Juvenile Yellow Tail Coris.  Yeah, currently not yellow.  But tiny! probably half the size of my pinky. And definitely thinner..love those white spots on the red skin..

Moorish Idol

 Cowry shell hiding in a crevice.

The cutest Picasso Trigger Fish. Again, maybe 2 inches long, including the tail.  Very adorable.

And yes, fish can also give stink eye...

Brighteye Damsel wondering what I'm doing....Their eyes ARE really bright!

 This was the day of TINY.  This is a very small Raccoon Butterfly fish.

Regular size female trunk fish.

So today's dive was only an hour and a half.  The 3 hours yesterday pooped me out! But a nice day. And two octopuses.  It's so good! My camera acted up on the dive, but when I got it home, it was behaving again. Thank God! It's my fave! And they don't make 'em anymore...

Go that way if you want to see fish!

As I neared the end of the Sunday dive, a cute little boy swam up to me, tapped me and said "Go that way if you want to see fish!" How adorable. Of course, I'd been seeing fish all along, so it wasn't surprising. But he was so excited.  So I thanked him.  If I told him I was trying to see octopuses, he probably would have followed me, hoping.  Anyway, it was cute.  And I didn't see octopuses anyway.  Two days, no he'e! But as I told God, I enjoy the swim anyway.  I am always a bit disappointed when I don't see octopuses, but I am thankful for the swim.  I did see some cool stuff, so it wasn't like there were no neat things to spot.

Hiding eel.  He's the brown part, inside the hole, wrapped around the rock. No wonder I didn't see any octopuses!!!

Money Cowry. It is SO tempting to pick 'em up! I don't think I have any of these at home.  But I didn't.  I do try to be good.

This is why lots of folks don't see Leaf Fish.  The big rock, at the bottom. You can see it, kinda light green...leaning one "paw" on the rock. They are good at disguise.

Christmas Wrasse.  Just occurred to me that it is brightly colored, but as far as I know, not poisonous.  So I guess that "bright colors" means "leave me alone" isn't always the case.

A friend, in town from North Carolina, said these Rock Mover Wrasse fish look like they have makeup on. HAHAHA. 

I think this is a yellow phase of the Orange Shoulder Surgeon Fish. Correct me if I'm wrong!

This Spanish Dancer might be about to crawl off a cliff. I don't know how their eyesight is, but I hope it doesn't get poked.

 Trunk Fish. Alex and I really love these..

As we do the Lizard fish.

 This neat 4 spot butterfly was about 2 inches long. Awesomely cute!

Can you see the scorpion fish? It has its right fin on the red rock. They, like the Leaf Fish, are really good hiders.

As is this box crab! I would NEVER have spotted it if it hadn't moved.  It's the middle "rock"..you can see the slightly opened mouth. And 2 eyes just below the mouth in this photo.

Cowry near a drupe.  I don't think either would eat the other..i hope.

 This is the same Cowry that I found yesterday.  In the same general area.

This large Cone shell was in the rocks between the big pond and the little pond.  I spotted it just as I was pulled over into the big pond! So this is the best photo I got, as I couldn't find it again when I fought the current and went back over...nice big cone and definitely filled with the real animal. You can see it near the bottom of the shell, inside.

Today's trash and shell and operculum haul.  Thankfully, I didn't see any yucky trash (paper, old shoes, dental bridge...yes I have found one of those. No lie!)

So no octopuses were spotted, but I have heard that since we have so many seals, turtles and of course, that lifeguard that hunts 'em, I'm not surprised.  Perhaps God will show me some next week. Thanks for the safety, God!

And speaking of God, please pray for my friend with cancer, when you can take a moment. She is having hospice care at home now.