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A large stingray on the wreck of the bimini barge |
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My brother and I, with my camera |
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Dion and I outside our room at the hotel |
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looking up at the hotel |
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Of course, the hotel cat! Looks just like mine, flower! |
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The beach on the west side of the island |
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Dion and I at the beach |
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lots of little lizards |
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They are actually called curly-tailed lizards! |
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A large spotted moray eel out on the night dive |
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The main road through town. |
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The marketplace, a bunch of open-air booths |
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The smaller of the two dive boats |
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The seaplane we took between bimini and florida. |
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One of the divemasters, Krista, and Dion |
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Krista and Melanie, the two wonderful divemasters. |
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This is actually at 9am... the sun finally peeking through on the last day! |
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Dolphins! |
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The only dolphins we got to see for the whole trip... :( |
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My brother Matthew |
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Dion |
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A schoolmaster |
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Pretty sponges with a squirrelfish peeking over the edge |
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Translucent blue vase sponge |
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a pair of bluestriped grunts |
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My brother flying over a school of grunts |
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a porkfish. |
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A school of bluestriped grunts |
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A postcard of the above-water part of the wreck of the Sapona |
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A yellow stingray |
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A balloonfish inside the sapona |
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Dion outside an old ladder with some curious sargent majors |
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a group of blue tangs looking for a bite to eat |
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A large gray angelfish presiding over the wreck |
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many fish among the twisted wreckage, and the sun peeking through the shallow water (10 feet!) |
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The large propeller |
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Dion and Matthew near the propeller for some scale |
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A huge school of grunts between the propeller and the rudder |
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Another view of the rudder |
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a large spotted scorpionfish, hint... the sponge on the left does not have lips! |
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Matthew next to the wreck |
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A golden moray slithering out in the open |
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A pair of nurse sharks sleeping under a ledge |
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Closer in to the nurse sharks, and you can see the sharksuckers starting to check me out! |
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I was trying to get closer for a better picture of both sharks. |
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One of the sharks woke up from the flash, and zooms right over my head! |
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A Queen angelfish peeks around the corner |
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Matthew hovers over a smooth trunkfish |
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A large porcupine fish during a night dive |
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This large porcupine fish was sleepy, so we could pet him! |
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A nice side view of the porcupine fish. |
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Dion meets the halksbill turtle! |
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Dion swimming with the hawksbill turtle. |
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A halksbill sea turtle! |
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A queen angelfish |
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A small balloonfish. |
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The balloonfish with Dion's hand |
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Dion and the balloonfish |
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A Spotted moray eel |