Aaron is officially done with his 3rd semester of med school and we are on our two week staycation before 4th! Here are a few pictures from our first snorkeling trip this break :) Friday morning we met a few other couples at the med school's front gate and negotiated a taxi ride with "Mr. Brun" to and from Toucari Bay [TOO-coddy] (15 minutes north) for $7.00EC each, round trip (~$2.60US). The water was clear and the jellies were definitely present, but not plentiful or aggressive enough to keep us away! Good day!
Megan putting on her son, Owen's, goggles :)
This is a Smooth Trunk Fish
Balloon Fish
Caribbean Blue Tang (Dory's Caribbean cousin)
Cool sponge
Owen, and his dad, Nate Russell, getting ready to dive
The Dynamic Duo
Blue/Grey Tang
The other Dynamic Duo
Cool spikey vase sponge
Barrel Sponge
Aaron's head at Toucari
Playing with the jellies
Megan Russell
Blue-Headed Wrasse
School of brown and blue Tang
Squirrel fishies
That is a piece of coral/sponge that I accidentally broke off. As soon as I put it back down a bunch of fish came to check it out and eat little newly-exposed organisms that were invisible to me
Blue-Headed Wrasse
Coney Fish (Part of the Grouper family)
Pretty reef life (Blue-Headed Wrasse)
A little island under the sea...
Those things that look like palm trees are called Feather Duster worms. The top "flower" is the crown of a sea worm that lives in the tube and is both a feeding apparatus and a breathing gill. If you wave your hand by it or touch it the worm reflexively withdraws into its tube
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