We headed out first thing this morning to the reef wall on the north side and went for a deep dive to 100 feet (the students first time in the triple digits!). Everyone was really excited to get a deep dive in so that was alot of fun.
The second morning dive we went on was at a reef called the mixing bowl and it was really wonderful! We saw a nurse shark (so exciting!), tooooons of fish, a turtle, and a coloful and apparently rare snail that likes to hang out on the soft corals.
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| Photo credit: Ashley Barnett Dr. Adam Marsh observing a school of fish |
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| Photo credit: Erin Papke |
After lunch we had some time to relax and recoup for our night dive!
We headed back to cumbers caves reef for our night dive which we swam too from the shore. Night dives are truly awesome and Im so glad we were able to get another one in! Some of the students were lucky enough to see an octopus (so jealous!) while they were out tonight. I saw a big stone crab, a barracuda, lots of corals with their polyps open (they are fun to shine your light on becuase the zooplankton gather around the light and then the corals feed on them!), cleaner shrimp, some anemones, and a big sea turtle. There was also a school of large tuna-esque fish that kept swimming around us eating all the little fish our lights were attracting. They even ran into us a couple of times! Was crazy and awesome, cant wait to see what we do tomorrow!
- J
You are really getting in some deluxe dives with this good weather. Really great that the last week can be among the best experiences--making good memories to go home with. I'd love to see an octopus, they're wonderful.
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