MONDAY, 29 AUGUST - NIGHT DIVE Barracuda! Shortly after we returned from a fruitless Whaleshark hunt, the mosquitoes bloomed. They don't call this the Mosquito Coast for nuttin'! Maybe you saw us on the webcam doing 'Honduran salutes' as we waited for the last diver to arrive on the boat. French Angelfish Queen angelfish Was a good long dive, and saw lots of interesting critters that come out at night when the "day crew" goes to sleep. Saw a Slipper Lobster, Spiny Lobster, Stingray (with a remora stuck on its back) . . . . . . Hogfish (a 'night owl', as they are diurnal) . . . . . . and a nice shot of a Basket Star (in the daylight they look like a clump of wiry coral). There were some bioluminescent fish - impossible to photograph, but they would flash pale blue . . . then go dark. Christmas Tree worms When they sense a change in water pressure from a predator or diver swimming close by, they retract into the coral head.

MORE COMES OUT AT NIGHT HERE