Cozumel 1999

These are the pics from my latest trip to Cozumel, Mexico. Our dive group consisted of my brother Matt, my girlfriend Dion, my friend Erik (his first dive trip) and myself. We once again stayed at Scuba Club Cozumel. And as expected the service was great and the dive guides were helpful.

The weather wasn't so great, but the diving was excellent and rain doesn't matter much as long as the water is warm and the visibility is good. Which is was, so we were a happy group.

As you may notice from the pictures, I did some experimenting with my new close-up lenses. I was rather pleased with the results. It is always exciting to look at my subjects from a different perspective. I still have a ways to go, but I think I managed to make the most of the experience.

	An adult Spotted Drum		One of my many Wrasse friends
	A cute little Balloon fish		A hermit crab wearing a home with a lot of growing room (He's very optimistic)
	A nice bright pic of a Coney fish		A nice friendly scorpion fish :)
	The best picture I could get of a splendid toadfish (They aren't very sociable)		A nice close-up of a yellow stingray
	Let's just call him the "unknown wrasse"		A Bandtailed Puffer
	An up close and personal with a spotted moray		Another fine dinner guest
	A pair of Flamingo Tongues		A rather large Octopus
	A pair of Banded shrimp		Erik and Matt just hanging around
	One of my favorites, the Queen Angelfish		A very pretty Gray Angelfish
	A juvenile Spotted Drum		A picture of a spotted moray on the hunt taken during a night dive
	Here are a couple of critters I'd like to invite to dinner		A large crab eating dinner
	A good sized southern stingray		A Sharptail Eel out looking for some dinner
	A medium sized Octopus		This is one of Dion's favorites, a Blackcap Basslet (they swim upside down)
	Another pretty Wrasse		A Arrow Crab and a Brittle Star share a Basket Sponge
	An inquisitive Octopus discovers that flashlights don't taste very good		A very pretty Sea Anemone
	A small hawksbill turtle		This is a loggerhead turtle swimming towards us during a night dive on Paradise Reef
	This is another picture of our friend the turtle		The final shot of our friend the turtle before we let him go back to sleep
	Dion and I pose during a safety stop		A dangerous looking Barracuda
	Erik comes face-to-face with a large grouper		Dion tries to tweak the tail of this large grouper
	A nice looking pair of French Angelfish		I finally managed to get a picture of a Sand Tilefish
	A Coney or a Red Hind finds an unusual hiding place		A French Angelfish poses by 2 large basket sponges
	A Red Hind		A close-up of a very small Trunkfish
	A very grumpy looking Arrow Crab		A pink-tipped Sea Anemone
	A juvenile angelfish		A pair of Christmastree Worms
	A Spinyhead Blenny peeking out of his burrow		Check out the smile on this Wrasse
	A shy seahorse we found on our last dive of the trip		Another shot of our shy seahorse (he was almost too big for my framer)
	Last picture of the seahorse		An Arrow Crab hides behind a Sea Anemone

Last updated: Sun Nov 21 01:46:39 PST 1999