More diving today.
The sand at the bottom was covered in garden eels..
They stick their heads out of the sand, but quickly retract back into the sand whenever anything passes overtop.
Their little faces are almost cute, for an eel.
There were many starfish.
Many, many starfish.
And blue starfish.
There was also lots of fish including more puffer fish.
And more puffer fish. Oh and also lots of sharks. ![]()
We also saw nudibranchs. They are a mollusks who lose their shell as they grow and they take on really weird shapes and colours.
And giant sand dollars.
There were also a large number of parrot fish everywhere.
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.
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.
White tipped sharks
And black tipped sharks.
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.
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.