While swimming, I always pop up to see if anyone is coming in my direction; many first time snorkelers make mistakes and bump into other swimmers. When I looked up and over, I saw some fins..which I realized were SEAL fins! So since they were too far away to get a quick photo, I swam away. And then later saw that they had headed for the beach and were lounging.
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Rock Mover Wrasse. Very bendy. This fish picks up enormous rocks and throws them aside, looking for tempting treats underneath.
Four Moorish idols and an Achilles Tang.
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Pokey urchin. Doesn't it look like a spider, almost?!
Young Barred File Fish. The older ones have the bars, but the younger ones just have the white spots.
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A cute goby sat there and let me take his photo.
Male Trunk Fish.
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Brighteye Chromis. There were a gazillion of these little guys and their littler siblings zipping around. So adorable and about the same size as my little fingernail.
Christmas Wrasse.
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See the Peacock Flounder? Great camouflage, non?
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We listened to a dive show the other day that insisted on calling groups of fish SWARMS. Schools, maybe... These are blue spined Unicorn Fish.
Octopus #1.
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This one stayed quite contentedly in its den.
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He'e #2. I know it's a bit blurry, but I wanted you to see the siphon and its eye.
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Humu.
One of the Leaf Fishes.
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Pencil Urchin mashed in between two rocks.
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Devil Scorpion Fish. It never moved, so you can't see the orange and yellow on its side fins.
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I'm told that if you pull these strings, the animal will pull back. I am not into touching things underwater, except the occasional shell, so I don't know if this is true.
A very nice swim. Perhaps I'll have another on Monday and another on Tuesday, just because I can!
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