Thursday - May 25, 2006

We stayed at Half Mile for the two morning dives. They turned out to be lots of fun, Rick even found an old lobster trap with a grouper hiding out inside.

  • Hawksbill Turtle
  • Grouper
  • Yellowtail Jacks
  • Colonial Featherduster
  • Hawksbill Turtle
  • Rick
  • Rick
  • Christmas Tree Worm

For the afternoon dive we moved to RGI where we saw the weirdest creature of the whole trip, the flying grunard. It looks like a giant bug about 16 inches long. It walks along the bottom stirring up the sand looking for critters to eat. It even changes color as is moves from the sand to the coral. Very bizarre!

  • Miniature Spotted Drum
  • Colonial Featherduster
  • Shadow of the Boat
  • Flying Grunard
  • Flying Grunard
  • Spotted Moray
  • Flying Grunard
  • Rick with Grunard

For the night dive we stayed at RGI. We saw another flying grunard as well as some nurse sharks scouring the reef for food and a number of stingrays.

  • Coral Shrimp
  • Christmas Tree Worm
  • Hawksbill Turtle
  • Flying Grunard
  • Nurse Shark
  • Stingray
  • Stingray's Eye