Grand Cayman 10/24

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Our dear friend Dr. Cissy Akin completed her 55th dive during a night dive in 2020 when John and I were there. So happy to see he medallion inlayed in the sidewalk below Eagle Ray’s restaurant.

Queen Trigger fish. I think my light added to this unusual coloring in this photo, I thought it made it cool though, haha.

Car Tarpon… I’ve had people point these out to me and they thought it was a Barracuda, not even close. But These guys you can just about swim right up to and they won’t some… much

Royal Gramma (Gramma loreto)

These little guys are pretty quick and when you see a lot of them in one place, it looks like a dance troop or something, lol.

This is a Nudibranch, very small sea slug

Now this here is a Barracuda, and this one seemed to be zero’ing in on our guide Jesse.

Videos From This Trip

Elmo’s Wall

I was following John as he was the first to go through the swim through. Was a beautiful video, even though John missed the Lionfish at the end of the swim through.

Angel fish

These beautiful fish will come up close to you as long as you control your bubbles, lol

Angel fish

Although these are beautiful fish, this one appears to have a scowl on its face… kind of like an angry old man???? Maybe??? lol

Banded Butterfly Fish

These fish always seem to always in found in pairs, I love how they seem to almost dance together.

Barracuda

this was a great angle up at this barracuda from below.

School of blue fish

The fluidity of the schools of fish is really cool when they cruise across the floor of the ocean.

Cero Mackerel

I haven’t seen too many of these fish, possibly because they are fast, as you can see how quick it swam by me.

School of fish

While descending at the beginning of a dive, I saw this school of fish eating off the floor of the ocean and moving along so smoothly.

Fan Coral

This fan coral was so hypnotic while it was waving back and forth with the surge in the current.

Flounder

Now unless you see them moving, a lot of people don’t even notice these creatures that can camo themselves as well or better than an octopus.

I’ve made it a habit, especially here in the Caymans to watch for them in the sand I usually find at least one each trip.

Gray Trigger Fish

These fish have definitely got a different design structure in how they swim, but I think it’s really cool.

Grouper #1

These grouper get pretty big, now this one is not even close to the size they can get, but for here, this one is pretty much about average.

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Grouper #2

This grouper is larger than the last one, which also makes me wonder sometimes how they get into some of these small places we find them, although I know there’s a larger opening to the right, other places i’ve seen them it seems like they’d never get out.

Hermit Crab

While just floating along with the surge and current, I noticed an odd shape in the sand that just wasn’t moving with the rest of the sand along with the surges. So I paused a moment to watch and then after another surge, I saw that this was a Hermit Crab and it seemed to be holding on for dear life, lol. As I watched it more it was getting knocked around and then hold on for a moment and then would crawl around something, possibly looking for some place to anchor down to.

Jellyfish

this happens occasionally while I’m doing my safety stop where I’ll see a jellyfish.

I’m just really glad I saw it before it was wrapped around my arm or leg… look at the length of those arms.

Kangaroo Gorge Swim Through

Here’s one of the best swim throughs on the south end of of East End’s sites.

Lobster #1

There are certainly times while diving I would love to spear one of these lobsters, it’s amazing where we find them some times. But as a guest to the island I’m just going to leave them be.

Lobster #2

This little guy was waving it’s antennae at me like he had something urgent to tell me.

As I was telling this to some fellow divers, I used the reference of Lassie, the collie that seemed to communicate with “Tommy” I think it’s boy owner was, haha.

Guess too one had to be there, but we were all laughing anyway.

Lobster #3

Look in the shadows of shelves and holes in the reef, lobster can hide everywhere.

Lobster #4

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Moray Eel

Now I’m not sure why, but after about 7 days of diving, this was the first and only eel I’ve seen at all, which is unusual To say the least.

Nurse Shark

If not for the unusual weather this last week, we probably would have been diving closer to the end of the East End where more of the sharks hang out, but this is the first Nusre Shark we’ve happened upon.

Puffer Fish #1

I saw this guy coming over the ridge of the reef and was hoping for it to get closer but it did swim off…

Puffer Fish #2

These two puffer fish seemed to be in a game of cat and mouse, it was really cool to watch them swim around.

While Diving In Grand Cayman

Valet Diving at it’s Best

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