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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanDec 11, 09 Comments Off
 School of Fish Hello readers how did your Friday go?? I bet many of you are so glad it’s the weekend!! Well I was underwater most of the day, in fact I spent close to four hours under the cold H2O!! And yes it was cold today!! We have had this raging current outside now for the past two days which in turn brings up the cold water from the deep! It was 25 Celsius today which is around 77 degrees, that’s very, very cold for this part of the Caribbean, usually it’s in the low 80′s! I first did a shallow “15 foot deep” dive with Aimee and her girls and a dolphin named Tina, (which when pronounced correctly sounds like “Teen-ya). This was a tough dive for me, the current was actually pushing me into the subjects I was trying to shoot and I ended up stirring up a lot of dust trying to stay still. After about 45 minutes of that I climbed out and walked directly over to Animal Encounters and went right back in. Since the water was so clear I figured it was a perfect time to swim with the Stingrays! I had a great time and tried hard to think about how cold I was getting but managed to stay in there photographing the rays for around an hour and thirty minutes! When I got out I was frozen and rushed to the hot shower which felt so good and within minutes I was back to feeling my hands and feet again. The third dive was about two hours later back in Animal Encounters, this time equipped with a macro lens. I had been wanting to get a close-up of the eyes on a Queen Conch and a close-up of an eye of a Stingray all of which I accomplished on this third hour and a half dive. Most of my co-workers think I am crazy diving so much but they have no idea how many cool shots I bring back from every dive, I am a man on a mission!! I really can’t believe that as long as I have been here that I never took the time to get a photo of the Conch eyes, they are so cool wait till you see.
I took your photo of the day last Wednesday on our reef. This is a large school of Blue Tangs, Doctorfish and Ocean Surgeonfish all out for a bite to eat. I see these large schools of Blue Tangs just about every dive I make and they seem to love swimming in numbers! If the lead fish dives down to eat some moss off a rock they all will, it’s almost comical to watch, it reminds me of the saying, “the blind leading the blind”. Anyways they are so beautiful in numbers like this and I thought you would like it!
Thanks for all the compliments on the kitty card you guys are great as usual!! See ya, Barry
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