"Alice in Wonderland"

This afternoon's dive got started a bit late. We again headed south for a short drive and stopped at a site called "Alice in Wonderland". This is still part of the double reef system, but this time we did not cross the sand channel that separates the two. We had to hoof it out about 150 feet in 10-20 foot water out to where the reef begins. As the coral heads start to come into view, you realize how the site got it's name. Lots of large fans and other flowing coral that gently slopes down to a max depth of 80 feet. The water was turbid (lots of particles) and vis was way lower than 100 feet.

We maxed our depth at 60 feet and stayed down quite a long time before the long haul in. Including "travel time", and I dont mean in the truck, the dive was almost an hour. A convenient fact to remember for later in our story. The three of us vied for use of the camera, and later all claimed credit for the best pictures. This site is famous for Parrot fish and French Angels. We found a bunch of the latter that seems to want to play and pose for us.

The banded coral shrimp that you can't see in this shot was not so friendly.

Not too bad a shot of a Christmas Tree worm.

Say "Hello" to my little friend. This green moray was about a foot long total. He was hiding in the coral and did not like our intrusion. At the end he looked PO'd enough to come out and lunch on a pinkie finger.

Back to the Carib Inn, change shower and then out for Chinese takout. Not cheap takeout either. Food, Electricity and Water are very expensive here.

We were very hungry and had a great meal back at the Inn. Unfortunately, I was sooo tired from the looong dive over at Alices' place that I did not have it in me to do a night dive. But I did get all the posts in for today. Falling behind in the posts is a bad thing.

Hope you are enjoying the show. If you send email and we don't reply it's because we cant send out from here. We do get email inbound though, so it's a one way street.

See you all tomorrow.