After the Wreck of Cali was sufficiently explored, we headed out to the East End for some fried fish and more snorkeling. Saying 'snorkeling at the East End' is pretty vague cuz it's a huge area with lots of different beaches. Not sure exactly where the snorkel spot was. Yeah so, here comes the fish:
Here's a French angelfish. I've blogged about this here fish in a
previous post. The reason that this picture is cool is because the fish is in the transitional stage between juvenile and adult (fish puberty?).
Here's a green moray eel. They can grow to be 6+ feet! This specimen was in the upper end of the size spectrum. I think I was getting on his nerves!
This cool-looking fish is called a 'Spotted trunkfish.' It feeds on turnicates, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and seagrasses. This picture is nice because the fish is focused!
This is the back side of a lionfish. They are really cool and there spines are poison (they hurt but won't kill you). They show you there backside while in the defensive position. It's interesting to see one of this here in the Cayman islands because, they're not indigenous to this area. According to an
article about lionfish on Wikipedia, a hurricane in Florida release these fish from an aquarium and now there proliferation is disrupting the ecosystem of the Caribbean coral reefs.
Snatched up a lobster for dinner on the way home before the end of lobster season.
Here's a Flamingo Tongue gastropod. The spots you see aren't actually on the shell. Part of the creature that lives inside the shell (the mantle, which is spotted) is wrapped around the surface of the shell which results in spots.
This purple and yellow fish is a juvenile Spanish Hogfish
This is a spotted trunkfish. It was swimming pretty good so I'm luck to have snapped this one.
This is some type of filefish. I'm not certain of the exact type. Maybe some kind of juvenile because it was pretty small.
Here's two Spotfin butterflyfish (See the little black spot?). They were swimming around together. I think they like each other.
This Caribbean Spiny Lobster was HUGE! I bet this sucker was about 100 years old! Awesome.
Here's a cool shot that includes a giant Caribbean Spiny Lobster, a juvenile French angel, and a blue-headed wrasse. I like this one so much I made it my desktop background on my laptop.
