August 9th, 2009

Today we did Nai'a Bay and Pyramid Pinnacle. At Nai'a Bay, although there was a pod of Nai'a (dolphins) in the bay, we did not see them during the dive. Spotted Eagle Rays were seen by the deep divers, as well as the other usual suspects that live out in the sand... Garden Eels, the used-to-be white, turned orange striped, turned orange frog fish, ( I wonder if the one at Lone Tree Arch will do the same?) Everyone got to see a huge, male Green Sea Turtle, numerous times, and there were so many White Mouth Moray Eels, many of them out swimming around! We also got to see a Tiger Flat Worm, and the yellow frog fish that's still hanging around the mooring.

At Pyramid Pinnacle we saw the Long Nose Hawkfish, Tinker's Butterfly fish, a couple different octopus. Mike found a new large yellow frog fish. Nikki found White Margin Nudibranchs with eggs! We also got to see the two harems of female Flame Wrasses (they are about 10 feet away from each other) with the male swimming between them in full display, proudly marking his large territory. Beautiful!