Schooling Fish

Tabaccofish

Diamond Blennie & Giant Anemone

And it continues....

Beautiful Caribbean Sunshine. :)

No diving recently...

...see below. :)

Diving again...

So i went diving yesterday afternoon after work, didn't see all that much but there were loads of gobys and blennies around - which are fast becoming my favourite tiny fish. Couple of photo's below...

Say hello to Ron everybody! :)

Peppermint Goby

Peppermint Goby

Bearded Fireworm

Owen Island.....

So a bunch of us went to Owen Island for a few beers and fun in the tubey thing that tags onto the back of the boat.. thankfully no pictures of that - but i can take some photo's of my bruises if you want!! below the pack of drinkers is the lovely sunset we were treated to. Ahh, to appreciate where you are.

People leaving... thank you alcohol..

So the time has arrived for Leanne and Neal to leave. Well - we obviosuly were planning on a few drinks to say farewell - sadly the drinks started (beer) at 5.30pm. They continued with a lovely curry in my apartment (tequila, vodka, barcardi, white wine & beer) then migrated to the dock to see fireworks, then the bar (champayne, buttery nipples, beer, wine & more) and then ON the bar. All in all a fabulous night, Heath was doing is last DJ job and was eager to get all the girls dancing on the bar and then was easily motivated to get all the boys on the bar.

Saturday was a nightmare. Up at 6.30am to check everyone out. owch. BUT - we are now CLOSED!! yeah! that means - as every other resort is closed on the island so this week there are NO TOURISTS at all. it's quiet. Very quiet. i'm topping up my tan nicely! :)

There was an excursion to Owen Island on sunday - i have some photo's but i need to sort through them before posting. At some point this week we are supposed to be doing a staff dive. maybe thursday / friday?

Bye Leanne!!

Lined up and ready to go.

Neal has been saying he can put 35 whole miny chedders in his mouth since her got on the island. Jen kindly provided the miny chedders for the task...

The miny chedders are DOOMED.

All 35 miny chedders are in Neal's mouth right now. Some people are so talented!

Boys on the bar.

After the girls were on the bar (thankfully no photos) it was the boys turn. :)

M/V Captain Keith Tibbetts

So for the first time since i've been on little cayman we ventured over to a Cayman Brac dive site this morning! We went to see the wreck and it was very nice - made a change from walls and stuff anyway! see photo's below. :)

Me by the guns!

Sponge on the wreck

Small honeycomb cowfish

Baby lobster!

Spotted moray eel

Diving & England..

Ok so i was looking through my photo's and i did go diving before i left i just didn't update my blog. Below are a few photo's from those dives, and then some of sunny England - which it was (sunny & England) when i was there! :)


Two Grey Angelfish hanging out on the wall....



Fish in a sponge...



Lemmon Ray - this is actually the first lemon ray i've seen here - yes yes they are really common.



Little boats waiting for the tide to come up.



The mill pond, Emsworth, Hampshire, UK. :)



One of the Queen's swans...

May go diving tomorrow AM - depends how sleepy i am in the morning! if not then Sat PM, or Sun AM for sure.

I'm Rubbish...

..at keeping my blog updated lately - there are two very good reasons for this; 1) i went to england for a couple of weeks so i wasn't even here & 2) since i got back i haven;t really have any time off - and now i'm working double (i know, i know, poor little me).

Anyway - tomorrow looks quiet so i might get time to put some photo's up of england and then maybe friday afternoon i might get to go diving for the first time in a month.

:)

In the clear.. for now.

So Emily passed fairly south of us int he end - causing nothing but a bit of wind, very little rain and a very high tide! We were diving again the next day - and below are some photos. There are currently no weather systems threatening us - so fingers crossed we might have a quiet few weeks! Having said that - we have been predicted 15 named storms with 5 of them being major - so we have 10 left to go - with three of them being major hurricanes!!

Spotted Drum

Sharpnosed puffer

Grouper in a cleaning station

Wind from Emily

Sunset the night of Hurricane Emily

Nurse Sharks!!

OK, so i finally got to see some nurse sharks up close! Usually - as i'm the last one in - the first few divers scare them off - there were orignally four of them, and one was swimming away as i got to them (below) the other two stayed and had a little cuddle in the rocks.. awww. There's a couple of other below - a nice diving morning! Looks like we will be buttoning down for Hurricane Emily this weekend.. so things may go quiet.

Yellowhead Jawfish

We are unsure if this jawfish has eggs in it's mouth.. i was hoping one of the photo's would show them so we could know!

Spotted Cleaner Shrimp

I don't like this photo too much as it's out of focus... well that's not quiet true - but the camera focus on it's rear end instead of it's head! :)

Slender Filefish

Flamingo Tongue

Hurricane Dennis

OK so below are a few photo's of hurricane Dennis - in true Little Cayman style - we were all at the bar drinking til everyone stopped remembering what they were doing or what time they went home! The photo below with the rainbow was the start of the storms on the night that dennis passed us. This massive rainbow then every other sound was drowned out by the rain progressing over the sea. Very strange! We then had a good thunderstorm, lost power for a bit - drank more beer, got power back, got drunk and went home. Thankfully we have very very minimal damage (rain water damage mainly) - and the good thing about water damage here is that it's dry in a couple of days!

Squid Sighting

This is the first time i've seen squid (squids?) in Little Cayman. We were on the moring line at Jackons Reef. There was three but the the photo of the three of them isn't that good. You see them all the time here apparently so no one else seems to think it's a big deal!

So the week off was great - it was like going on a weeks holiday to a really nice Caribbean island and having the best time. Fortunately i get to stay rather than go home, but the apartment is feeling lonely without someone else there now (that's a really big hint for a certain someone to come back?!). So i've been spending time in and above the water - doing all the cool touristy things there are to do on the island. Of course we went diving, and snorkelling (and because i didn't take my camera snorkelling we saw a nice nurse shark), and cycling, and ate and drank lots.

There's some above land photo's below for a change, and should be some new diving photo's later on this week when i get my act together and get back in the water before the storm hits (no name as yet - but looks like it will be the first hurricane of the season). I knew there had to be drawbacks to living in the caribbean!

Sunset over the pond.

Morning Clouds

Candle Road Resident

4th July Fireworks.

Apparently 4th July is some sort of silly America holiday!! ;)
Fireworks from Southern Cross.