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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanDec 9, 09 Comments Off
 Erect Rope Sponge Hello and good evening. Today we got up early and loaded the dogs and dive gear and headed West to an area called San Juan. It was a long drive in on a really rough dirt road but once we got to our destination it was worth it. We had this whole little beach to ourselves this morning, we never even saw one other person anywhere! We had to park the car up high on a hill and carry all our gear down because only a good four wheel drive would have made it down and back up this crazy hill that ended at the beach. I came down the hill in my wetsuit and tank on and was ready to go, Aimee carried the camera. I did a short one hour exploratory dive while Aimee played with the dogs, collected shells, snorkeled, read a book and took some photos. My dive was fairly uneventful, I saw a baby turtle when I first went out but the second he saw me he took off, I guess you can’t blame him! The visibility there was terrible today, there was zero water movement! I noticed this section of the reef had a lot of alga growing everywhere and I also noticed many big Damselfish Gardens. There seemed to more sponges than coral here which was fine by me, I love the sponges! So I didn’t take that many photos but did get a few cool things like more pics of the Damselfish Gardens that were this time on big sheets of Grooved Brain Coral heads! When I surfaced the dogs launched into the ocean and swam out to greet me, I actually had to hold Indi for a moment so she could catch her breath! We hung out there for another thirty minutes or so looking for shells and taking photos and then decided we had better get moving as it was getting hot and we had a long drive back home.
Your photo this evening is from my dive on Sunday on the Sea Aquarium house reef. Usually most every time I dive our reef I go to the right side of the reef but Sunday I thought lets go left for a change I haven’t been down this way in a long time. It turned out to be a great dive! I found so much great wide angle stuff to shoot that I had either forgotten about or had never seen before. Like this spectacular Erect Rope Sponge with a big trumpetfish hiding alongside. I didn’t even know we had one of these on our reef and this is a big one! These sponges just amaze me, I can’t believe they don’t break?? They must have an incredible hold on the reef to be able to handle the constant surge from the passing waves, because as I watched this one was swaying back and forth from every passing wave.
I’m getting ready to go diving again in about an hour on our house reef, am going on a squid searching safari!! It was a beautiful hot day here and we have the air-co running in all the room, hard to believe our friends back home are in freezing temps right now! Better get moving, Barry
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