Friday! :)

Some recent diving photo's below and one of a nice sunset last Friday. Not been doing alot apart from diving and sunbathing - the good weather has returned and we'll probably all be wishing for rain again in a couple of weeks! Should be diving next week - have a friend visiting who's doing the open water course - and i have most of the week off! Yeah! Photo's of the island and resort will follow as soon as i grab a bike and my camera...


Tiger Grouper in cleaning station

Big nasty barracuda under the boat...

Swim Through at Eagleray Round-up, Little Cayman

Arrow Crab in a sponge!

Sunset Little Cayman

Diving Recently...

So - not been up to much lately - we've had some rain which has turned the island into a green paradise - which makes a change from 7 months of brown dead stuff. The rain has lowered the visabilty and couple that with me being lazy i haven't seen much recently or got many good photo's. There are still lots of juveniles around which is nice - and i've been looking around for smaller stuff. Anyway - lots of work next week - but the week after i have a few days off - so hopefully get some diving in and some good photos...


Slender Filefish (Juvenile)

Lettuce Sea Slug

Flamingo Tounges

I like this photo - although it's a little blue...

Whitespotted Filefish

Visit to Stingray City, Grand Cayman

OK, so we got up early and headed out on a boat to Stingray City. I didn't (for some reason) expect there to be so many stingrays, and i certainly didn't expect them to be so big.. or aggressive. They push you. It's a little scary! See photo's below, after much encouragement from Gail i finally put some food in my hand to feed them. Not funny was when gail grabbed the squid (food) and rubbed it on my leg/arm. That's when they try to give you a stingray hickey. Lucky i'm small and quick.
Had an excellent time in Grand, it was so nice to eat take away pizza again!! Gail and Ralph are now in Oz, LC certainly isn't the same wihtout them. Every here is back to normal - i've been diving a few times, but not seen anything spectacular, so no photo's - but there will be some soon - hopefully of above land - as soon as i get a photo of us at the bar where i don't look totally wasted i'll post it!
Yesterday (9th) we had our first named tropical storm of the year, only 9 days into hurricane season, with it came lots of rain - so the booby pond had water in it, and things are turning from brown to green - after 8 months of brown, it's a nice change.

Touching Stingrays...

Underwater Feeding

Undecided Feeding

Yes i want to feed you, no - don't come any closer.

Wind!!

Ok - so the weather has turned in Little Cayman - a perfect time to update the blog... but i've left the photo's upstairs - so i'll do it tomorrow! What's been happening?

Stingray City, windsurfing, and of course, diving.. photo's tomorrow!

Sailing...

After working yesterday morning and being too lazy to go diving in the afternoon, i took out the Hobie Cat to sail about the sound. This is one of the many eagle rays i saw (i think about 5 in total), i also spotted a few southern stingrays, and two small (4 to 5 ft) sharks (nurse & reef). All the photo's of the sharks are blurred dark patches, but this one of an eagle ray is OK - Check out close up below! (of course the afternoon was rounded off nicely with lime daiquiris at the bar - thanks Gail!)


Eagle Ray - Take from the Hobie Cat whist sailing around the sound

Below are some of the latest photo's from diving - at the moment we have a mystery fish - it's super small though so if i posted it, you wouldn't be able to see it - anyway - Rod is going to send it off to a fish idendifier and we will wait and see!

Last dive with buddy Gail tomorrow - then off to Grand Cayman for the night/day to eat chicken wings, get drunk and hopefulyl sample the delights of Stingray City!

Close-up Eagle Ray...

Arrow Blenny.

Arrow Blenny - Randy's Gazebo, Little Cayman

Diamon Blenny

Diamond Blenny - Randy's Gazebo, Little Cayman

Nurse Shark

So this was the first shark Gail and I have seen in a long time (2 months?!) It's not a great photo, but it is proof! Shortly ater this we saw a white-tipped reef shark.. sadly.. no proof, within eyesight, but out of range for camera!

Nurse Shark - Pirate's Point Reef, Little Cayman