Fri - Morning Snorkeling

The whole family walked out to spend the morning on the beach again on Friday. This time Kellie and I came prepared to swim and try our luck with some snorkeling. Kellie swam for a bit before deciding she'd had enough of the mask on her face, so she went in to shore to play with the kids. I had already seen so many things on the reef that I grabbed Dad's underwater camera and took a bunch of photos. Even though the reef was only 1-2 feet deep in most places, there was an awful lot to see. I also saw, but could not photograph, a small crab that was disturbed by the first eel, and a pink sea cucumber that closed up when I got too close.

looks like some kind of cornetfish by the tail

Charles and Kellie get used to the water while Mom walks ahead

imgp0408 — I saw a lot of these little sea slugs. might be a Ringed Sap-Sucking Slug, Plakobranchus ocellatus

imgp0409 — tiny but colorful fish in the coral

imgp0412 — this guy was hiding in this plant

imgp0422 — might be a Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse

imgp0423 — juvenile Indo-Pacific Sergeant

imgp0425 — a good shot of the Indo-Pacific Sergeant

imgp0427 — I think this is a dark Spotted Boxfish

imgp0435 — Pale Rock-Boring Urchin hiding in the rocks

imgp0443 — closer but blurry Spotted Boxfish

imgp0447 — another Indo-Pacific Sergeant in the plants

imgp0450 — the smaller of the two Moray Eels that I saw, not sure what spieces. this one was around 1 foot long

imgp0458 — more tiny fish with a few slugs around

imgp0461 — juvenile Hawaiian Dascyllus around a Cauliflower Coral

imgp0465 — same Yellowstripe Goatfish swimming away

imgp0470 — head of the larger Moray Eel that I found

imgp0472 — you can see the tail of the eel at the bottom of this shot, he was probably 2 feet long

imgp0455 — Black Sea Cucumber, there's a second one in back covered in sand

imgp0480 — I thought this was driftwood until I touched it... it was soft and it jerked its head