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
