Mixed wires

Well, today, not much went as planned! The business "15 minute" meeting after church stretched to 45 minutes.  which put me behind on my desire to snorkel.  so i finally got out, got to the car and actually found a parking space when I got there!  wonders will never cease.

However, spoiler alert: there were no octopuses that I was able to spot.  It was from 1 to 3 p.m., so there were more snorkelers in the pond on both sides, so I blame that, rather than my inability to adjust to the afternoon light, as opposed to the morning light...lol

I did find something surprising: 5 cowry shells in one coral head!  Unfortunately, they were placed so it was impossible to get them all in the shot, but here are 3:

Again, I had a bit of trouble keeping my shadow out of the photo.  

If I move too much out of the way, I cannot tell where the camera is pointing.  But I enjoyed the show.  The 3rd one is kind of hidden but some white seaweed...at the top.

I enjoyed seeing the Christmas Wrasse:

 




Again, these colors just blow my socks off!









And this photo made me laugh.  Of course, it's cropped but..it looks as if they are both staring at me:

She said WHAT?!?!?!

Needlefish were plentiful and again staying pretty near the surface, so tough for me to catch on film:

They run in schools and it's so much fun to watch them watching me.  They get to be a decent size (as if a wooden ruler were round..that size) but these were much smaller.  Probably the width of a pencil.








There were a couple of Sea Hares again today; this is one:

I cannot see well enough to tell, but it almost looks as if there's something on the back of this one.  What I don't know would fill several books....









I did see a nice cowry on the sea floor:

I didn't check on whether it was empty.  I know those shells can be re-used, if they are vacated by the original animal....
And the major surprise was the flounder:

 

Look for the bar of light across the face of the flounder.  It is good camouflage isn't it?












I did take a movie, but the little one stopped moving after an initial sprint across the scene...

And today's box fish:

There were several eels, but this snowflake is the one that was fully out and swimming along.  Well, sneaking, really...

Just searching for a place to hide.  It still amazes me that I'm not grossed out by these animals: snakes, on the other hand do gross me out.  Lots of similarities, but eels definitely win in the cool category.

Colorful, isn't it?  And I didn't see the Drupe Shell until I got it home.....I wish I knew what all this stuff is...but I thought it did make a pretty photo...

Have a great week.. There may be a small hiatus because of sweetheart needing the car this week.  I'll keep you posted....hahaha.
Sorry.