10-13 Dolphin Drop-off, Grand Cayman

Larry C · Oct 20, 2006

Sorry if these are a little soft and the lighting's not perfect. I left the WA lens on pretty much the whole time, and had trouble the whole trip with the sync on my new strobe.

Turtles right off the mooring line as we dropped

Tiger Grouper

Parrot Fish

Pipefish on the mooring line

Tubular seascape

The captain watching over his charges

Many more to come as I process my other dives.

robbcayman · Oct 20, 2006

Cool pics, I can't wait to see more!!!

REII · Oct 20, 2006

Nice pictures. Grand Cayman is a nice place to dive.

TOM

fishballer · Oct 20, 2006

thank you for pointing out what i will NOT be seeing tomorrow when i dive in a quarry.

LI Diver · Oct 20, 2006

Nice pics water looks great! However that is not a parrotfish, looks like something in the snapper family kinda like a schoolmaster and pipefish is a trumpetfish!

Aquatic Explorer · Oct 20, 2006

es601:
Nice pics water looks great! However that is not a parrotfish, looks like something in the snapper family kinda like a schoolmaster and pipefish is a trumpetfish!

From what I can tell, I also think it might be a schoolmaster. Also the tiger grouper looked more like a Nassau grouper to me.

BTW, anyone who is interested in FishID, I found a site that has quizes for fish identification. You can go to www.reef.org and take their Florida/Caribbean/Bahamas FishID quiz. It randomly chooses common fish seen in the area you are taking the quiz for. Once you submit your answers (a,b,c or d choices), you will then get it graded and the answers displayed back to you. I have taken those quizes many times to get to the point where I can finally start recogizing many species without having to look them up in a FishID book.

Aquatic Explorer · Oct 20, 2006

Larry C:
Sorry if these are a little soft and the lighting's not perfect. I left the WA lens on pretty much the whole time, and had trouble the whole trip with the sync on my new strobe.

You may have had some trouble with your strobe, but compared to the amount of over exposures and under exposures I have been taking in manual mode recently, it looks like you did pretty good to me.

LI Diver · Oct 20, 2006

Aquatic Explorer:
From what I can tell, I also think it might be a schoolmaster. Also the tiger grouper looked more like a Nassau grouper to me.

BTW, anyone who is interested in FishID, I found a site that has quizes for fish identification. You can go to www.reef.org and take their Florida/Caribbean/Bahamas FishID quiz. It randomly chooses common fish seen in the area you are taking the quiz for. Once you submit your answers (a,b,c or d choices), you will then get it graded and the answers displayed back to you. I have taken those quizes many times to get to the point where I can finally start recogizing many species without having to look them up in a FishID book.

I thought it was a Nassau as well but did not want to push it

Just took the quiz multiple choice makes it too easy I doubt I would get them all while diving especially the type of parrot etc.. Anyways just jealous I'm not in Grand Cayman right now!:

Fastmarc · Oct 20, 2006

I don't know about anyone else, but those are nice pics.

RichKirby · Oct 20, 2006

Aquatic Explorer:
BTW, anyone who is interested in FishID, I found a site that has quizes for fish identification. You can go to www.reef.org and take their Florida/Caribbean/Bahamas FishID quiz. It randomly chooses common fish seen in the area you are taking the quiz for. Once you submit your answers (a,b,c or d choices), you will then get it graded and the answers displayed back to you.

Cool! Thanks for the link.

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