Salt Pier, Dive #11 - 9 June 2004


Sharptail Eel

Sharpnose Pufferfish

Peacock Flounder

Grouper

Caribbean Reef Squid

Juvy French Angelfish
and Stoplight Parrotfish

Back to Salt Pier, more amazing life to find, and at least three pilings still to see! From my logbook:

Very nice dive. Again followed the pier legs out & then North, turned & went to the South legs, on the deep side. Lots of junk down there, some of it fairly new and clean. Workman in a small powerboat zipping back & forth over our heads the whole dive, till about 10 min. before the end.

Saw a Sharptail Eel (2), one free-swimming; schools of Schoolmasters; well-hidden Drum, tiny Puffer in a reedy coral (took a pic then he zipped off), a Flounder Beth found perched on a coral head, found a well-hidden Scorpionfish deep, a Grouper cleaning station, lots of hidden Urchins (one with an Arrow Crab), & a school of foot-long Squid in the 10-15 ft. shallows at the end of the dive.

Juvy French Angelfish - I took a pic, & then signalled Beth. She lit out after it & swam out of view. I relaxed and waited and a minute later she swam back. Very nice dive!



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