To start the day, the group and I enjoyed a wonderful batch of eggs and bacon at 6:30. 7:30 came where we were briefed on the layout of the boat, the Twin Sister, as well as safety precautions. Our dive leaders Curtis and Bernie welcomed us aboard and told us about the dive site we were going to be at. We arrived to School House five minutes later and prepared our BCDs for the first dive of the trip! Giant striding off the stern, I descended down to our depth of 55 feet and traveled down the mini wall. French butterfly fish and blue headed wrasse greeted us first along the sea floor. Yellow coral and different rock formations held the tiny wrasse, as well as banded butterfly fish swimming around collecting pellets for food. The most common type of fish I saw was pretty big spotlight parrot fish. Their rainbow color scales made it easy to spot them all over the sea floor.
After School House, we took a 45 minute break and set sail to Rainbow Reef. Rainbow Reef is named after the amount of rainbow parrotfish that populated the area. The group and I saw plenty of parrot fish, on top of the ginormous French Grunt swimming very close by. The main attraction from Rainbow Reef is an archway housing one of the islands type of lobster, the spotted lobster. After reaching the boat again, my buddy and I swam more and saw some large grouper. The second dive allowed for a lot of great expedition along the wall. On our way back to the ship, a few of us saw a school of blue tang going from rock to rock scraping off pellets of food. Mixed in with the blue tang were a few black durgon. We were able to tell the distinction between the fish due to the blue tang fins outline in bright blue.
