Diving on Christmas Eve, looking at the “Christmas Tree Worms” in all their various colors, such a treat. But on this dive i noticed that the tops of some of the Christmas Tree Worms had white on the tops, something I have not seen or noticed before. Perhaps this is their expression of thanks at Christmas time, interesting thought.
Notice the white tops on the yellow Christmas Tree worms on the top right, not seen this before they are always the same color as the ones on the lower left. Same dive site something new all the time, nature is amazing.
The ones in the center have the white tops but not the others, very interesting.
Then on the way to the Christmas Tree Pinnacle there were 3 parrot fish which are deep blue, with blunt noses, meaning they are in the terminal phase. We usually see only one at a time and they are usually very shy. These three did not seem to mind divers.
The Parrot fish were feeding on something in the sand, short video:
And of course this be AKA the “Shark site”, the boys were out to check us out and make sure we took nothing from the reef, a couple of videos:
Been a good year for diving, would like to say thanks for everyone who took the time to dive with us in 2013, hopefully you will be back in 2014. We will be working on our Marine Protected area project and should have a new website by the end of January which will allow us to do a few things better especially with the photography.
The fishing is picking up, Daryl got the first Blue Marlin to the boat, tagged, photographed and released, estimated size 250-300 pounds. Catching a few Wahoo and some Mahi-Mahi, which usually picks up by now.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May you have the opportunity to scuba dive and deep sea fish as much as you want in 2014,
,,,”Ocean Fox Cotton Bay diving……..anything else is just a surface interval”
…”Ocean Fox Cotton Bay fishing………anything else is like sitting at the dock”
