one THOUSAND steps !

We headed out fairly early on Wednesday morning and went North. We were loaded up with two tanks each and the camera fully charged and ready to go. A large cruise ship came in early this morning.... I watched it dock as I had my morning coffee. So there were a lot of people that were milling about the town of Kralendijk. We arrived at 1000 Steps and saw about 15 of the cruise ship tourists milling about. While we were gearing up another minibus pulled up. I guess Wednesdays are payday for the taxi drivers.

I was determined to loose my nickname of "Camera Piggy" and so let Donna and Alex do most of the shooting today. They did a very credible job. Above is a trunkfish and below... well.. even the Canadian College kids didn't know this one.

Donna spotted a nice Honeycomb Cowfish.

And a Squirrelfish.

On the way back to our exit point I spotted this. Again this is a bit of a stumper. It is probably some type of grouper, but we could not identify it completly.

It did have nice sharp teeth though and was about 3 feet in length. I motioned for Alex to get next to it to give it some scale but... nah.. i didn't really do that.

This is some type of cleaner shrimp hiding in the Coral.

As we came up out of the water. There were .... more cruise boat tourists. They were on the beach and 3 of them were standing about a foot deep in the water with a fourth taking their picture from shore. Now you have to realize that the only one of them that realized I was there was the one with the camera. So .. naturally I could not pass up the opportunity to come up behind them and get in the picture with them. That move turned out to be pretty popular so I had to go back and do another shot with the picture taker in it this time.

Above we see Alex and Donna climbing back up to the parking area. 923....924.....925.... On the way up it really does seem like a thousand steps.