Hello Amigos, I am sitting here looking at my watch wondering where did my Sunday go??  Good grief the days go fast down here!  I took my camera gear and the dogs to the ocean this morning and while there walked the new trail but wished I had brought the bike.  I didn’t really find much to photograph, I was hoping to see the Cara-Cara’s but never saw a one so I spent some time with the red barrel cactus we have here instead.  Soon after getting home it started to rain and then the sky turned black and it poured!  It was one of our famous five minute tropical downpours and it flooded everything!  I then spent the afternoon transforming my computer room into a puppy play-pen, meaning I got everything off the floor and hid or put away anything that could be seen as a chew toy!  Once Aimee leaves on Thursday I will have to watch four dogs by myself and I spend a lot of time on the computer and won’t have time to be running around checking on them every five minutes.  At 4:30 I met our new friend David for a dive at Pier Baai.  David and his wife who also have a little daughter are the folks that recently adopted our little black female puppy.  Well, after the dive we went to his house and we got to see not only what a great house they have but also how well she is doing and how well she is getting along with the whole family, it’s a great success story! 

 

David and I had a very relaxed and slow dive today mostly because I had brought my macro lens and was going slow in search of tiny little creatures.  Besides finding a few tiny Secretary blennies and a baby Lizardfish I found this beautiful Fairy Basslet along with his family hanging out under a big coral head.  These beautiful two inch fish are ultra curious and will come back out to check you out if you sit there and wait very quietly.  These very abundant fish are also called Royal Grammas and are very similar to Heliotrope Basslet except the Heliotrope is missing the black spot on the dorsal fin and prefers deep walls at depths of 200 feet!  That’s too deep for me, will have to wait for the mini-sub to see one of those!

 

Ok, very tired, I am off to bed!  Taking some friends to the airport at 5:30am!  Bye, Barry