
Honeycomb Box Fish 10-12 inches

Honeycomb box fish - wonderful "kissy" view

tiny vacuum cleaner

Peacock Flounder

Peacock Flounders beautiful eyes and colors

Peacock Flounder... beautiful blue hues and spots

fellow diver capturing a huge Grouper

Huge, Old, Loggerhead Turtle - going down after gulping air at the top

Ancient Loggerhead - Pollo pointed him out in the Blue... hard swim to get close

Unidentified timid friend

Boxy

Deep colors on this Boxfish

Flamingo Tongue Sea Snail

Flamingo Tongue

Flamingo's love this tree-like coral

Flamingos remind me of Japanese art somehow

Flamingo Tongues: Always snuggled almost out of eyesight

More Flamingo Tongues - Sometimes 2 or 3 in a Flamingo Train

Rich colors

Always a prize, Flamingo Tongues

Midnight Parrot - Large

Scrawled File Fish

Beautiful Schools of French Grunts

So many lovely anemones

Somebody seems in the wrong neighborhood!

Honeycomb Cow Fish

Spotted Moray "I see you"

This guy, a Goby or Jawfish, small, peeks his head out to see what's up

Just taking a peek (jawfish)

Vicki - that's the blue beyond her. Deep. Beautiful.

Tube Worms, inside out, very small, beautiful

Yellow Christmas Tree

I really love trying to get texture pics from these coral displays

Screen Saver

Home Decor

The Bar Jacks (top) often befriend Rays

A small Ray with his buddy - a Bar Jack... symbiotic relationship

Small Ray buried in the sand... Eyes and gills exposed

Nurse Shark Portrait!

Nurse Shark

Nurse Shark Profile - note the cleaner fish passenger

Don't usually see a large Nurse like this fully exposed - pretty cool

Sting Ray and Bar Jack Buddies - love trying to capture these shots

Taking off in tandem

Tag Team!

These two were coming right at me, with Vicki close behind

As if in Flying Formation

Below the radar!

Queen Angel

Blending right into the sandy bottom, Peacock Flounder

Beautiful and tiny spotted cleaner shrimp

These cleaners love living in this "carpet anemone"

Check out the details... love the design

Translucent bodies... beautiful spots... intricate legs and feelers... cool

Small porcupine fish - the universe is in his eyes

A pair of regal Grey Angels

Arrow Crab

Banded Shrimp - like Jacque in Nemo

Stone Fish - incredible camouflage

Stone Fish - check out the antennae!

Peacock Flounder

Mr. Peacock... (flounder) both eyes on top - can you see the mouth?

Beautiful swim through... and swimmer through-er

Blenny... among my favorite subjects. Small, Tiny, Incredible

Blenny

Blenny

Blenny

See him? Stone Fish

Painted Elysia - so small - so vibrant

Stone fish mug shot

Barracuda! Up close and personal :)

An old Cuda... within a foot or so

Anemone - Living Animal Wonder

Cozumel Splendid Bearded Toadfish - only found in Cozumel

Cozumel Splendid

Amazing Creation - Cozumel Splendid Bearded Toadfish

Blenny Surprise

Blenny

Blenny

Ray and Jack - Fully exposed

Ray and Jack, exit stage left

Ray and Jack - off to the sunset

Ray and Jack - Floating in tandem

Nurse Shark (4 feet long) and Huge Grouper - Buddies

Grouper and 4 foot Nurse Shark Friend… HUGE grouper

Mariano, Master Diver, Keeper of the Reef :)

Pollo. Friend. Master Diver. Lover of the Sea... with his Maker now

Pollo and friend

Debra capturing a cowabunga moment

Just Chillin'

Queen Angel

Trumpet Fish

Queen Filefish

Grey Angel

Coral texture

Splendid! Always hiding inside a coral and sand enclave

Juvenile Drumfish... tiny... darting back and forth in one small area

Drum fish

What a beauty - D rum Fish juvenile

Little Drum Fish

Drum Fish - constantly on the move

Crab Dinner?

Check out those chompers


Painted Elysia - less than 1 inch, tiny wonderful sea slug

Painted Elysia - loves green grassy areas against white sand

Large, gentle Porcupine fish

I'm sure his mother thinks he's handsome - Green Moray

Large Green Moray - often in cover of coral shelfs and structure

Green Moray - Come on in

Green Moray - "breathing" through the mouth

Green Moray - Fins up

Small Golden Moray

Golden Moray

File Fish - Dorsal Extended a bit

Beautiful Cow Fish

Blenny

Painted Elysia getting lost in favorite green sea grass

Painted Elysia

Cuda

Cuda

Cuda - soooo close :)

Large lumbering porcupine fish

Queen File fish

Queen Angel

Green Moray

Honeycomb Boxfish

Honeycomb friends

Less frequently seen cowfish

Special treat to see this cowfish

Grey Angel Pair

Stunning Grey Angel

Friend enjoying the sea together

Turtle views

Lined up for the photo

Easy going

Relaxing together

And what do you seek, Grasshopper?

Lobster Face - stranger than fiction

Queen File... absolute beauty

Lizard Fish - average size - a foot or so long - perched on its fins

Tiny Treasure - spotted cleaner shrimp on carpet anenome

A closer look - such tiny beauty - grateful to enjoy it

200th dive day for me - with my girlfriend, bride, love of over 43 years

Us

200th Dive - Mahalo - Aloha - Peace

My 200th dive - with Walter, Master Diver

Jose, another great Master Diver

Diving is really a happy place for both of us

Vicki just gliding with her friend

Like an underwater postage stamp - hawksbill

coral here - deep blue there - hawksbill in the middle

I swam hard around a corner to intercept this spotted eagle ray beauty

Spotted Eagle Ray - 3-4 feet wide - Beautiful, Graceful

Graceful glider of the sea - spotted eagle ray

Bye bye

spotted eagle ray on his safari

tiny treasure

check out the eyes and "nostrils"

green moray

arrow crab - check out the blue mitts

love the colorful tips on many anenomes

coral bed landscape

Another kind of tube worm

Blenny in his observation stance

Blenny in coral

Conch Shell conversation up close (the "eye")

colorful hermit crab

Quirky Hermit Crab - Always borrowing someone else's shell

Suspicious looking hermit crab

Supper??

Beautiful Spotted Cucumber - seafloor cleaner

Kissy Kissy

These just sort of float in the water - like a space ship

Where do the colors come from?

Spotted Cleaner Shrimp in Anemone home

spotted cleaner shrimp

spotted anemone shrimp on the move

depth and color

This spotted moray was fully exposed, peeking up from the reef

On the move

Love the fish friend (blue sergeant fish) visiting the eel

I'm sure these lobster faces inspire many "alien" movies

Ray and Sharon

Ray and Sharon

Just checking me out - hello Mr. Blenny

Peek a boo (blenny)

Love this Blenny's homestead

looking up for little, nearly microscopic, meals

Pollo - I believe it was his last dive... gentle shepherd of the sea

Rogue waves took Pollo home in a strange accident






























































































































































































