An excellent Sunday afternoon SCUBA dive at Salt Island

You will probably be able to tell right away that I took my big camera in the water this afternoon...The quality just cannot be beat of the pictures! I made myself do a ton of work (including the newsletter I posted on the Flying Cloud before this) before I let myself go for a dive this afternoon. I almost said "to hell with it, I will play Scrabble or Wordscraper or something instead" but did go. One thing that Salt Island is always good for is ANEMONES, and they are some of my favorite to photograph. Not many colorful ones this afternoon, mostly in the yellows. I like the purple ones.



Mostly you get some fish portraits today, not much in the story line. This little Angel Fish did not like me around, so he was peeking out.

I could tell I had not been in the water for awhile with my big camera, I was up, I was down, I was filling my BC, dumping it out, and STILL kicking the hell out of the sand as you can probably tell on this little eel picture that I tried to take...

I like these Hinds, they just kind of sit and look at you.

A nice little Ray.

And one pain in the ass large Remora who would not leave me alone! They like to attach on you, which is not that interesting when you are trying to take pictures. So, I took pictures of him instead...



As you can see lots of pictures, as when he was around, I was not getting too much else!



I was happy as can be when he left. Although, I did find it odd that he took off so quickly as they normally don't, but I found out that Bazza had jumped in the water and it found him and kept on pulling the hairs on his legs instead! These shrimp are on this plant/animal whatever it is a lot. Maybe some one else knows what they are called.

Usually the Triggerfish do not sit too still for me, but I had several good pics of them today. They sure have some chompers on them!



And a nice little upside down jelly fish. One of my favorites as well.

Then I ran into the monster that took away my remora as I was about to leave the water...

He swears that there was an old wreck down there, as he has found quite a few things right where we are anchored over the years. He came back with a couple things to show me...

We have a couple flatirons that we have found over the years on land, but I believe this one is even older. It is a coal iron! They used to put hot coals in it to iron with. I am not sure why in the world they bothered with ironing back then, I can't even do it now!

This is a beautiful old piece of pottery with pictures on both sides.

And here is a close up of the Mallet we found yesterday!

All in all a very nice Sunday afternoon dive, and now for our viewing pleasure we get to take Survivor, which I downloaded last night to bed to watch! Yippee!