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Published: July 11th 2012
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First dive. We flew into Grand Cayman late last night arrived just before they closed the car rental place so we didn’t have to take a taxi to Sunshine Suites. Good start. We caught up with Everet and Essy expert critter finders in the Caymans. Awesome. We signed up for 3 dives at the Lighthouse reef. Everet and Essy took us to the shallows north of the pier where we saw Tritonias laying eggs, pale jawfish no eggs. Everet showed me a dragonet with brown nose apparently very rare but also very skitish. We saw different species of triple fin blennies, sailfin blennies and squat lobsters. The 2 black seahorses that they have been photographing weren’t around. Lots of cling fish under the rocks on the shore line at the end of the dive.
28 ft .116 min. 14 lbs. 80 cc AL. 1500 psi left.
Then we ran out to change our room from 3
rd floor to 1
st floor and met them for a Second dive. We headed for the wall. On the way they showed me very cool decorator crabs then we saw very big and healthy coralimorph with pretty cleaner purple shrimp. I was having light
troubles so my photos weren’t anything great. They waved bye and my buddy and I stayed playing around. On the way back I found a female secretary blenny out of the hole looking for some attention from the male.
70 ft. 104 min. 14 lbs. 80 cc AL. 1200 psi left.
Dive 3. . Night dive. We headed for the wall at night where Steve found nudis on a red sponge. A red shrimp with white claws in the “touch me not” sponge. It is so pretty. I am definitely going back to get them. They live in an huge anemone at 70 ft. I forgot that I had turn my strobes down for the white nudis and I couldn’t get the light in the hole only when I was 3 min to get into deco I realized I had to turn the strobes back up. When I did I got a couple of id shots and then I notice they were eating the worms around them . Then I headed back up the wall into the shallows where Steve was shooting a very pretty white nudi with orange rings in the cerata. It almost looked like a
White footed shrimp ID by E. Turner
I love the name it fits like a glove :) variation of our occidentalis. Then a couple of crabs in the fire coral, shrimp everywhere and worms. I saw a cling fish getting carried around by the surge. Now I understand why they hide under the rocks.
65 ft 99 min 14 lbs. 80 cc AL 500 psi left.
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Everett
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Probably Austraeolis catina with very fat cerata, most of the ones we see look like this.