Originally Posted by
MonaLisa
This post is specifically for Jason (Anubisxero),
I just got back from vacation and I had the most INCREDIBLE dives!! The corals in Cozumel are coming back incredibly. Before this trip, I'd never seen a nurse shark (thank goodness, in my mind)...this time I saw 4 of them...sheesh they're HUGE!! The sharks we saw were at least 10' long nose to tail. And those were out and about, one of them ferociously scavenging in the corals...I would have hated to be on the receiving end of his tail at that time.
All in all, we did 10 ocean dives and 2 cenotes (caverns). Sorry no pics..we forgot our digital cam and the only disposables we found were only waterproof to 27' or so...our best dives were at 80' or so.
My goal on this trip was to finally be able to see a seahorse. We saw a HUGE sea turtle being groomed by some HUGE french angels (that was surprising)...we saw puffers, and I saw the tiniest drum fish...we saw an incredible large green moray. On our night dive, and actually on one of our morning dives, we saw octopus out and about and scavenging. During the day, we saw the octopus actually tent a huge piece of rock and then it took off swimming...incredible. Disappointing was that the divemaster kind of harassed a porcupine puffer into inflating...I had to turn away...
This was the second time we've done the cenotes...all I can say is ABSOLUTELY BREATHTAKING!!! They've changed the routes from the last time we've done this. The water in those cenotes is so clear that you feel like you're flying...really flying!! At the outtake though, there were some little fish that were incredibly interested in us. I wiggled my fingers a bit, and had a HUGE cloud of those fish taking turns at nipping (not hard) at my fingertips. Very cool.
All of this just scratches the surface of what we saw. The big finale though was on our last dive...I was down to my last possible 200psi. We swam over to a grassy area off of the reef to look for horses. We were over there for about 10 minutes or so looking around and the divemaster indicated that he'd found one...a beautiful little yellowish-green horse, male, I think, not sure what species... I smiled so wide that I flooded my mask...I didn't care...hmmmmm
Lisa :happyfish
Ha. Don't I feel special. Oh wow!! All of that sounds amazing. I can only imagine! I hope to do that eventually. I've never been anywhere remotely "reefy" I guess nowhere tropical even. But all in due time I suppose. I'm glad you got to see your horsey! I think they're just amazing little creatures. I've seen this video a guy made of his fuge/horsefarm. They're great looking. You might like to see it. Gimme your email and i'll forward the page it's on. It has other awesome videos of setups and things like that.
Anyhow, while you were away I bought a new piece of LR that had the sebae I wanted attached to it. So my guy gave me a good deal on that and some beautiful zoo's. I also just got a pair of yellow-head sleeper gobies(which i've had before and loved) but sadly my female didn't make it. Depressing I know. Hopefully I can find a replacement soon. Other than that like I said i'm about to try my hand in converting my wet/dry into a fuge or partial fuge and have one of those soap dishy things in the tank just for added measure. So here's hoping. *crosses fingers* I already fragged the zoo's too. I've been keeping myself busy. Ah well. Like I said, gimme your email and i'll be glad to show you the video.
Take care and talk to you soon!
Jason
