Snorkeling in Jamaica

[ritter6788]

Took a cruise to Jamaica, Cozumel and Grand Cayman for Christmas this year. While it was freezing and snowing back home this is what we where doing. :xd: It wasn't a guided trip or anything. We just hit the beach and swam out until we found the reef. It was a pretty far swim and I ran out of film in the camera before we got to the best place but this is a bit of what we saw.

Jellyfish of course

Anyone know what this fish is?

These collector urchins were everywhere.

Lots of these big wrasses.

No idea what these nems are but there where a lot of them, different colors.

Hard to see but there's a tiny fish (goby?) that is hiding it this anemone.

This squirrel was not happy I was taking his pic.

Tons of these long spine urchins too. Really dangerous in some places there were so many you couldn't stop to rest.

 

[ritter6788]

Anyone know what this is? Looked like a carpet anemone but attached to the side of the rock. About as big around as a basketball.

Anyone know what this is? Almost blended in with the substrate.

This Blow Fish followed us for a long time. It was like walking the dog. It stayed right beside us and when we stopped it would stop and look at me like it wanted us to follow it.

Cool barracuda!

This was all on the way out to the better reef. I ran out of film before I got to the good stuff. There was a huge reef wall in a semi-circle shape and we were swimming around in the middle of that. There were Favias the size of beach balls in almost perfect shape. I didn't see a ton of sps but there were some here and there. Mostly anemones, LPS, and such. There was brown scroll algae on nearly everything. Every rock was occupied by some type of life.

 

[wysiwyg]

very cool photos

 

[revhtree]

Oh man so jealous!

 

[11purewater]

YA MON!:bigsmile:

 

[Connie]

Wow! I know you had a great time!

 

[Aquaph8]

Awesome pic man, I went to Jamaica for my honeymoon. We really loved it and hope to go back in a couple years for our ten year anniversary. What camera did you use, your pics look better than the ones I took.

 

[ritter6788]

Awesome pic man, I went to Jamaica for my honeymoon. We really loved it and hope to go back in a couple years for our ten year anniversary. What camera did you use, your pics look better than the ones I took.

One of those crappy disposable ones. I can't remember the brand. The pics from the last trip in Costa Maya were worse. I'm going to invest in a good underwater camera or case before I take another trip to a reef. It helped that there wasn't anyone there telling us to go so we could get right up to the reef. I had so many more pics that came out bad though. These were the best of the bunch.

 

[KoleTang]

The new GoPro is not too shabby. You should look in to that.

 

[Wesley42079]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[VelasCorals]

Sweet! Thanks for sharing!