Eileen can go home happy now. We found a seahorse under the dock, right beside the dive boat. I went out on the 9:00 dive and one of the girls said that she saw one there two days ago and that her boyfriend had seen it yesterday. After the 11:00 dive, we had some lunch, a couple of beer, and then we got our snorkel stuff. We got into the water and on the way over to the dock we found a neat little lizardfish in about two feet of water. He was sitting on the bottom with his mouth wide oen trying to look very menacing. There were a couple of others, that might be similar. These guys live in tunnels with a little ring of rocks around their entrance. Every once in awhile they'll poke their noses up to see what's going on. Not really sure what they are. We got over to the pier and were looking very intently for the seahorse. Found lots of lobsters, a couple of crabs, one spider like guy but I think he's got about ten legs, a lionfish, an octopus, and then finally I spotted the seahorse. I called Eileen over, but this little guy kept circling around the pilon, always staying on the same side that I was on. I backed off a bit and finally Eileen got to see him. She says she squealed but I didn't hear this one. Not like I heard Rino a couple of days ago when he found the Pipehorse. I'll attach a couple of the snorkel pictures. The seahorse wasn't very big and he wasn't overly colorful, but he was defintely a seahorse. We're feeling the pain of those who missed it.......especially when we see the blowing snow warnings and travel advisories that are out for S'toon today.
Just when we found the seahorse the dive boat came in. After it tied up, I stuck my head up and told them about the seahorse. One woman said she had her camera and was coming in. she grabbed her mask and camera and jumped in with us. She got over to the pilon and tried going down for a picture but she had her wetsuit on and could barely break the surface. This is the first time I've ever seen someone strip off a wetsuit while in the water......
Nothing really special on the dives today, one turtle, a porcupine fish, and a big honeycomb cowfish. Two very relaxing dives with a couple of nice groups. I hit dive 50 in my logbook with the first dive today.
Went to the palapa bar to drop off a book for Linda but she wasn't there. We spotted her walking down the street with her partner while we were having supper at the King Crab. Their seafood platter is pretty good. One small snapper, a couple of lobster tails, a few pieces of crab, and about fifteen shrimp all cooked on a charcoal BBQ for $30.
Tomorrow; golf booking for 9 am and then I think we'll go back to Tranquil Seas for tapas night again. I enjoyed the food there, and both of us like listening to the band called TwoCanDo. Two Canadians, one on drums and the singer on guitar. For a little while they had a bass player, so they were called TwoCanDo and the Polish guy. Only on Roatan.........love it here.
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| Lizardfish of some type with his mouth wide open |
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| No caption required......classic pose (I need a better camera...) |
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