For our second dive of the day, Sally took us to another of her favorite spots: the reef just outside of her house. This made setup easy, and gave us a nice place to sit down and eat King Kong burgers between dives. Garlic fries before a dive? Not recommended; save them for another time.
So we got in the water, and immediately, bam! Queen triggerfish.
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The coral was nice and healthy, too.
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One neat thing about this dive is that we saw French angelfish in every life stage, from tiny can’t-swim-just-flops-around-wildly juvenile with their blue-spotted fin tips, up through adult, with the transitionals still in the process of giving up their stripes.
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Not surprisingly, there were lots of other kinds of fish too. Like this buttered hamlet and yellowtailed parrotfish.
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Or this purple-headed wrasse, and this… well, it’s some kind of goby, but we can’t tell them apart yet.
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All in all, a very pleasant dive. Lots of floating around. Here, Jazz with her head up and Sally with her head down.
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This looks so beautiful! How deep are you?
It varies throughout the dive. I think the deepest photos are in the beginning, around 60 or 70 feet, and the shallowest are around 10-15.