Little Cayman - above and below: July 2005

A half-inch juvenile trunkfish sporting its translucent fins was seen bopping around Marilyn's Cut dive site this morning. It only took about 12 shots to get one in focus!

Can you tell that Marc has been working on our topless boat a lot recently? And also that Sabine and Mathieu have been hiding away in their house!?!?

FINALLY - I got a pic of the shy and very elusive peppermint bass (yes, there are a lot of peppermint-named animals in the sea). These little guys are quite common but don't like divers it seems:-( Don't you just wanna lick it?

It is always interesting to see the various species of sponges spawning during the spring and summer. This spawn occurred just after the latest full moon. I am surprised that none of the fish or crabs were interested in having a free meal as I have seen in the past!

I had hoped(!!), but never thought that I would find another seahorse before I left the little rock. He is on the Soto Trader wreck dive site so I will definitely have to look for him again before we stop diving in a couple of weeks!

There has been a school of what I believe are southern sennet (relatives of barracuda!) hanging around our wreck, the Soto Trader, for the past couple of months. They encircled our divers this afternoon and made for a great photo-op.

I hadn't seen a green turtle for months, (we do have heaps of hawksbill turtles here) so I was very happy to see this guy swim by with an attached shark sucker at Nancy's Cup of Tea this morning!

Peppermint gobies are very common but I like this shot because he was sitting on one of my favorite corals, blushing star coral. (And they are hard to get in focus with my point and shoot digital camera!)

A large rainbow parrotfish speeding past us at the end of the dive at Mixing Bowl this morning

This photo is courtesy of my sister, Kathy, who was here for a week with my bro-in-law Paul, for their 8th, and perhaps last visit for quite a while! They also survived Hurricane Emily with us this past weekend!
It is, in fact, a pic of myself and Jerri, one of our friendly Nassau groupers, taken at Donna's Delight just a moment before the inevitable lip contact...

Hurricane Emily appears that it will pass quite far to our south so we have probably prepared for another dud of a storm.
Here are a couple of pics I took in the 'cave' at Bush Gardens, for those of you who know what I am talking about. Both taken on the wall at the shoreline in about 10 feet of water. Any ideas??

ID'd!! - a dusky cardinalfish

juvenile fish of some type (butterfly?), an open fileclam and an arow crab

We found this 3 inch long juvenile burrfish on a night dive last night at Cumber's Caves dive site. It was the first juvenile I have seen. Way kool:-)

This is the most common hamlet here in the Cayman Islands - a barred hamlet that I was finally able to frame and focus properly.

This Nassau grouper at the Great Wall West dive site was too busy getting cleaned by all these gobies to care that my camera was 2 feet away from his face!! Why he doesn't just swallow those little striped and tasty-looking small fish for a snack is still a mystery to me.

This may be just another fish to many of you, but it is the first cave basslet that I have managed to get a photo of, as they are very cryptic and extremely difficult to get a photo of, as they tend to hide as soon as they see you!

Mathieu and Marc leaving for an island tour just before we were hit by a big storm yesterday afternoon.

Our dock (well, Pirate's Point's dock) was disassembled yesterday so that the hurricane wouldn't tear it apart. Lots of work and for no need this time, but ya never know!

This strange, 5 inch long, stick-like insect was clinging to my porch screen for dear life during the brunt of the hurricane yesterday. Are there any entomologists out that that can tell me what it is?

We had 2 eagle rays chillin' with us on our dive at Meadows this morning!

Liz sporting her latest boat-umbrella today, that I picked up in Toronto last week at the parade.

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