IN EVERY DIVE TRIP, THERE COMES A TIME WHEN I CAN NO LONGER FIGURE WHAT DAY/DIVE IT IS. I'VE NOW REACHED THAT TIME . . . SO ENJOY THE PICS IN WHATEVER ORDER THEY SHOW
The southern stingray is adapted for life on the sea bed. The flattened, diamond-shaped body has sharp corners, making it more angular than the discs of other rays. The top of the body varies between olive brown and green in adults, dark grey in juveniles, whilst the underside is predominantly white.
Red snapping shrimp Sleeping parrot fish Once a fish finds a sleeping spot . . . . . . it excretes a mucous sack that entirely encloses its body for protection. In a few hours, the sack is covered with sand . . . . . . thus camouflaging the fish even more. A hermit crab convention . . .
After our first dive, we were offered the option of doing a second dive OR go looking at/swimming with whale shark sighted on the North End off Pumpkin Hill (most sightings are within three miles of Pumpkin Hill). It's a half-hour boat ride from where we were on the Westside.
	The nine of us (four chose not to dive) are in snorkel gear queued up, waiting the sign to get ready, and go - look (left or right, depending on which side of the boat the whale shark is approaching). We are dropped in the path of the whale shark and have to swim like the dickens along the surface to keep up until it dives (since we SCUBA'd earlier, free diving is contraindicated that close to doing a one-hour dive). We had three attempts, rotating who among us was first in the water.
The south end of a whale shark going north . . .

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