Sun setting on route to salt rock from the wreck...

Beautiful sunset at salt rock dock

A spot of diving and few photos below..

...Queen angel fish...

Hawksbill turtle..

Banded clinging crab & pederson cleaner shrimp

White spotted seahare...

Red reef hermit crab...

Solitary gorgonian hydroid

...yes that was looked up in a book!...

A hogfish

Spotted trunk fish..

Point of Sand...

...for the afternoon, beers, rounders (or almost baseball for the americans out there), swimming puppy dogs and general fun. :)

Gathered out the sun...

Ending up at the Iggy for PIZZA!

Sharpnosed Puffer.

Still my favourite fish here in Little Cayman... The sharpnosed puffer..

Hamlet..

A nice little Hamlet..

Nassau Grouper

Grouper - one of the many hanging around as it looks like they will be getting ready to mate at the end of this month...

No fish..

This was supposed to be a juvenile slender filefish - but he turned as i took the photo - i like the photo of the soft coral though.

Spinyhead Blenny..

Blenny who made his dodgy little house on some hard coral... (Rod, correct me if i've identified him incorrectly).


...after consultation with the reef books/dvd & various people we have decided this is a spinyhead blenny. Mainly due to the blue spot/white streak behind his eye and the lack of branches on his head (which would make him a secretaty blenny)...

Spinyhead Blennie.. again..

Blennie from the top...

Down to Dave & Elisa...

Early partier's got to watch the sunset! :)

Tia!

How cute is Tia?!

Escape from LC and...

...over to Grand Cayman to meet the parents off the plane and hang out for a day... the famous seven mile beach....

Grand Cayman..

Then we treated ourselves to a trip on the submarine... for people who don't/won't dive - it's a must!

Underwater...

A mermaid!

Back to LC...

Sunset from the plane - on the way back...

New Years Eve - Day...

New Years Eve day, a trip down to point of sand - then an island tour...

And...

Point of Sand itself...

From point of Sand to the Lighthouse

. A scary pole with a ladder tied to it. :)

A lovely view.

End of the island from the lighthouse (bottom, not top- you have to be a nutter to climb up those wobbly ladders).

From the Lighthouse to the shipwreck....

From the shipwreck to Candle Rd...

....to see the residents... needless to say we didn't get out of the van! :)

Especially when they tried to talk to us...

New Years Eve, Eve

And off to Pirates Point Resort for dinner at Gladys' house. Hats were required, and you don't argue with Gladys..

Dinner time smiles..

Back at the Beach Resort.

I think this photo shows adequately how sober Vici and I were. ;)

Midnight...

And the New Year fireworks from the dock!

Staff Party - The ladies... Left to right: me, Vici, Elin & Lisa

Staff party at the Beach Resort.. two coolers full of free beer and wine, as you can imagine it got messy quickly!

Lisa...

...cooling off after we drank all the beer!

Mum, dad, me & Clive..

Resort boys...

Resort girls...

THE BIG TRIP!

OK - so below is an updated map (click on it to make it readable) of "the big trip". below is a list of the stops numbered...

1. Chicago
2. London
3. Toyko
4. Osaka
5. Singapore
6. Phuket
7. Similan Islands
8. Bangkok
9. Melbourne
10. Sydney
11. Christchurch
12. Auckland
13. Fiji
14. Cook Islands
15. Tahiti
16. LA
17. New York

No doubt more stops will be added on the way! Very excited about it all! :)

A nice flamingo tongue..

Went diving yesterday with Vici, we were at Joy's Joy, just one dive (pm) and we saw some cool stuff! No sharks, no eagle rays though.

Sergeant Majors - a bunch of them!

A very small, very cute bridled burrfish..

Longsnout butterflyfish...

This butterfly fish was very taken with the red light that my camera produces when doing close ups in a dark hole. Every time i took a photo he would come close almost kiss the camera (or, more likely, trying to scare the camera off).

Pederson cleaner shrimps!

Diving yesterday.

Finally got out diving again yesterday - lovely morning, perfect weather - we went to Nacy's Cup of Tea and Coconut Walk, haven't been to either of those sites for ages so that was cool. We saw some juvenile spanish hogfish duelling - i have video but no (in focus) photos!


Trumpetfish.

Queen Triggerfish

Crab..