Cozumel Dive: Napoleonic Fish

This was our second dive in Cozumel on the dance cruise. We saw a large Napolionic fish (like a grouper) that looked almost as long as (and much wider than) Deby! It was great.

Hawaii Dive: Eels!

Went again on John's boat to Scottie's Place. This time we saw a snowflake eel, swimming! Found a big whitemouth again, and again could not find its head. Also saw a beautiful potter's angelfish, and juvenile and adult yellow corus. Really a great dive!

Hawaii Dive: Eels!

Went with Jack on John's boat to Scottie's Place. Found a big zebra eel and a big whitemouth eel near each other. We only saw the bodies, we couldn't find their heads. Also saw a very small dragon moray eel!

Hawaii Dive: teeny beauties!

This was my first dive with prescription lenses. Went on John's boat with Jack, and was absolutely amazed at all of the teeny gorgeous fish! I couldn't believe it! When I told people, they looked at me like I was crazy, then explained that they were always there. I had just never seen them without the prescription lenses before. What a difference!

Hawaii Dive: Turtles!

Went on John's boat to Turtle Canyon for a dive. True to the name, we saw turtles! :-)

Hawaii Dive: Eel with cleaner wrasse

This was the third dive of my Open Water I class. We went to Turtle Reef. When we were going around after doing our exercises, we found a huge moray eel being cleaned by a cleaner wrasse. It was very cool!

Hawaii Dive: Dolphins!

This was the first dive of my Open Water I class. We went to Kahe to do a shore dive near the power plant. We swam out and descended and were sitting on the bottom doing our exercises when I saw a very large grey shape swim past behind the instructor. I immediately thought "SHARK" and got scared, but then another one went by and I noticed it was smiling. DOLPHINS! I pointed a few times but everyone thought I was pointing at the instructor, who thought I was asking some sort of questions. I was thinking, "No, no, we all know how to take our masks off, look at the DOLPHINS!" But nobody else saw them. When we were getting out, they thought I was making it up, until my sister (who was waiting on the shore) asked us if we had seen them, that they were playing all around us. :-)