...Z diving Pictures

Thierry from Carlos Scuba picked us up at the downtown pier and across the Bay we went in his Panga. Up on the hill - the small white building to the right of the large group of condos - is the condo.... This is the Carlos Scuba panga. Picture taken from Las Gatas where Thierry has his "office".The dive site was around the corner from Las Gatas. Around the lighthouse...called Caleta de Chon.
My new Pacific Coast Reef Fish book has been ordered -but I won't have it for at least another month or so...so while this IS a starfish...I can't tell you exactly what type...there are some fun differences between diving in the Caribbean and diving the southern Pacific Coast.
These guys are similar to Bank Butterflyfish...they are however, not identical to the pictures in my Reef Fish of the Caribbean. Another way they are unique is because they are friendlier than the Caribbean Butterflyfish!
No idea what this guy is...but he was beautiful!

A type of Angelfish...and Hamlet??
Another big fish...ha ha ha!!!
Hopefully you can pick this guy out from his hiding/camouflage spot...a Longsnout Seahorse.
The coral here is within the first 10 to 35 feet. Thierry explained to us that on the Pacific side there is so much plankton in the water that visibility or light only gets down to 35 feet for the coral to grow and remain healthy. Therefore the coral diving is not too deep...On this dive the deepest we went was 40 feet.

Another kind of starfish...
Something that had a grip on everything that passed it's way....
Many, many of these Butterflyfish...and they WANTED their picture taken!
I have no idea what this guy is...but he also wanted his picture taken...
And then at our deepest...40 feet...the rays....little guys compared to what we saw in the Caribbean...also different....

Another Ray....
Coral.....
A hairy hermit crab of some sort that Thierry brought up for us to see....
And, today is Friday, June 6th...we are anchored in Lake Sylvia...and tomorrow I fly to the Bahamas to go diving...more on that later....perhaps Paul will catch you all up on all of the work that he is going to get done on the boat while I'm gone!!!!