I did walk down to the Bay on Sunday, but the waves were so fierce, that I decided it would be stupid to go in. Even if I didn't get mashed, the visibility would still have been poor, probably. I feel badly for the visitors who are only here for a week. If they leave it to the last day, they'll be disappointed.
Kinda like some of today's visibility:
Can you tell it's a Picasso Trigger?! I feel bad for the fish when it's this hard to see: how on earth do they find their food?!
And I certainly didn't find any "for sure" octopuses. I did find some places where there could have been one, but I only count it if I'm totally sure.
All the rocks were outside the hole, but couldn't see well enough to tell if there was an octopus behind the rocks, hiding. I like to think there was. So I'm not calling this post SKUNKED; I'd prefer to think I might have seen one. Maybe. ha.
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Cute little blue striped butterfly. And a Christmas wrasse that I actually was fast enough to catch with my camera.
There were some nice clouds.
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And the Cornet fish zipped by on the hunt.
Early morning sky and palm tree.
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The Humu dove into this hidey-hole just seconds before I snapped the picture.
Hard to see, I know, but this might have been some type of scorpion fish. It was hiding and the reddish part surrounded by white was a fin. No idea what kind; couldn't see it well enough.
But I could see the moon. And the close-by cloud.
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Adorable Sergeant Major. A really small fish, maybe an inch and a half long, including the tail.
The sun did finally come up. I popped up to take this one, so that's why the water looks close. Because it is.
A Humu not hiding.
This bluefin trevally was scouting for something over the rocky bottom. I didn't see what it wanted. There also was a Giant Trevally that flew by, but the vis prevented me from catching it before it was out of camera range.
Isn't that a crazy cool mess of clouds?
And now for a word from the operculum corner:
Because there were so many days when I couldn't swim, I took some operculum photos. Looks like 3 planets, right?! (in the middle one, you can see a bit of the coloration that makes it called a Cats Eye.)
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The container holds 1866 operculum. Good thing they're small.
I have mentioned these little things before, but in case you missed that post, these are little hard items that a Turban shell creates to block the entry to their shell. That way, the animal inside has a better chance of not getting eaten. Or having the shell stolen. Crabs will do that, if they can.
You can see how some get bashed about. I do like the curly design on the smooth side.
I have over 19000 of these things. Yeah. Who knew?
And props to God for giving us decent water. Here's hoping for the weekend!
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