Today was our third day in the Cayman and the water couldn’t have felt better. As we travel to our first dive site Big Tunnel, I started to get excited about the dive that was coming soon. As I leaped into the water I could barely see the ocean floor below because it was so deep. Once my buddies and I descended the the ocean became clear and I could see everything. I was immediately greeted by two Black Durgons swimming side by side then right. Below appeared a small group of juvenile Blue Tang that seemed to be friendly. As we proceeded through the tunnels the coral seemed to go on forever. The fish that caught my eye today was the Blue Parrotfish; we did nto study this particular type of Parrot fish in class and seeing this fish swimming around was amazing. This parrot fish was almost the same color of the light blue water that it was in. Many fish have been seen in both dive so far the distance features of the Banded and Butterflyfish and Sergeant Major always pop out in the water. Most fish usually just swim around but one fish in part lay that I saw would stay in the same spot and hover. The Squirrel fish was the one fish that I saw hover for most of the dive, I saw two of these red fish with big black eyes that would pop when you looked in their direction. Going through the tunnels I also spotted lot of Angelfish and different Parrotfish. Today’s first dive was amazing and I cannot wait to see more.
Our second dive of the day was at Bonnie’s Arch. The dive started off with the group dropping through a big hole in the sea. This arch was massive and the group head down the arch and we were initially greeted with the colorful coral reef and a multitude of fish and creatures. The first. Thing that caught my eye was the small school of Blue-headed Wrasse that seem to scurry around the coral going in and out of small crevices in the coral. My buddies and I saw many Rainbow Parrotfish swimming other in groups of two or three the Parrotfish looked gray and green underwater due to the color change of the ocean that affects our eyes. It seemed like I saw every fish on the second dive, the Angelfish and Butterflyfish seemed to not go away almost. The distinct color on these fish showed me how to spot each one with ease. As the dive was getting close to ending My buddies and I spotted school of silversides swimming over s during our safety stop. These silversides swam together and a very big school, there must have been at least fifty of these small, fast, little fish. Today’s dive were both amazing and there was so much to see, and I cannot wait for what lies ahead on the rest of this trip.
