Diving North Seymour

More diving today.

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The sand at the bottom was covered in garden eels..

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They stick their heads out of the sand, but quickly retract back into the sand whenever anything passes overtop.

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Their little faces are almost cute, for an eel.

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There were many starfish.

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Many, many starfish.

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And blue starfish.

 

 

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There was also lots of fish including more puffer fish.

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And more puffer fish. Oh and also lots of sharks. image

We also saw nudibranchs. They are a mollusks who lose their shell as they grow and they take on really weird shapes and colours.

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And giant sand dollars.

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There were also a large number of parrot fish everywhere.

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We also saw some Galapagos barracuda which are much smaller than the big ones around Mexico. These ones were only about a foot long.

 

At one point in time a spotted eagle ray came really close to where we were resting on the ocean floor. It swam right overtop of us and was only about a metre away.

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Oh an I believe I mentioned sharks earlier. The ones above were Galapagos sharks. These ones are white tipped reef sharks as you can tell by their fin tips.

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White tipped sharks

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And black tipped sharks.

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The second dive had a really strong current at the end and we did our safety stop as a drift. I don’t think I could even swim nearly as fast as the current was pulling us along. Here’s me relaxing during the 5 minute safety stop.

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These last four pictures were taken by the dive master. We couldn’t take pictures of ourselves, and we didn’t go that close to the sleeping sharks.

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