Snorkeling in San Blas

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Hello from the Kuna Yala territory in Panama!

I have finished cruising through the San Blas Islands/Panamian coast and am headed to the Panama Canal shortly.

Here are some snorkeling photos to wet your whistles. More updates coming soon about the San Blas Islands and the amazing Kuna civilization in this remote corner of the world.

But in the meantime, strap on some fins, spit in your mask and coming "snizzlin".... ready? Lets go!

PHOTO CREDIT: ZACH WOOD AND CODY REED! Mucho Gracias!!

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Photos

Flight of the Snizzlefish
Here we come!

firecoral
Fire Coral! Do not touch!

arrowhead
Aye Carumba! An Arrowhead Crab!

groovy
Straight outta a pimps hat!

shrimp
¿A que vas, gringo?

tubes
Stick your finger in.. cmon!

yellowhead
A yellowheaded jawfish!

star
The stars come out to play.

clive
The rare red-haired, green-arsed snizzlefish.

coral wall
A veritable water world

polyps
A sort of gill function much to complicated to explain in detail here. Actually I dont know.

fingers
Neat!

fans
Also neat!

ball with fish
really, really neat!

bluefish
Blue Fish...

Green and Red
Some sort of underwater mistletoe.

morecoral
Yet more coral

clive thumbs
Thumbs up or thumbs down? You be the judge.

elks horn coral
Fabulicious.

Lurking
What lurks below when you go swimming?

Brain coral!
Brains! Braaaaains!

sparklefish
I dub thee "blue sparkled yellowfin fish" whether you like it or not.

On the prowl
Here fishy fishy.

More Brains
Big Brain.

Comments

[David Rich]

Good shots
Underwater is tough and you did good!

[Doug and Shelly Wood]

Loved the Blog
We're Zach's mom and dad. He turned us on to your blog and we really loved following your adventures. You have a large rally section from home! Best of travels; hope guys all meet up at future destinations. Safe and happy travels as you follow your dreams! Doug and Shelly Wood

[Sarah L Fann]

Several Species
You have several species in this shot. Near the bottom right, under the yellow crust is sea liver. The red-orange, is the sun sponge (Hymeniacidon heliophila). The yellow is a type of living boulder coral, where as the rocky substrate around it is part of that organism that has died. The green branches look like a dead branching coral covered in green filamentous algae. Sadly, Caribbean coral has experience rapid declines in the past few years. The bright white spots look like they can be a fungus. I'm not particularly good with invertebrates, so this is the best I can offer.