Sunday, March 30, 2014

50 SHADES OF BELIZEAN BLUE


SAN PEDRO, AMBERGRIS CAYE, BELIZE

 We took the ferry from Caye Caulker to Ambergris with our good sailing friends, John & Anne off of "Seahorse".
Dive shops, dirt roads, colorful buildings, bars & restaurants everywhere you turn, pretty well describes San Pedro.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

SWIMMING WITH THE DOLPHINS

I could not believe how lucky I was to just be out for a little swim in the mangroves of Belize, when 2 dolphins came up to say hello - what a thrill!

UNDER THE SEA - BACK IN BELIZE

 Red spotted siphonophore; pelagic tunicate; comb jelly or sea walnut?; moon jelly
 Spotted eagle ray digging for food; green sea turtle with sharksuckers; yellow stingray; porcupinefish
 3 types sponge brittle stars; circle-marked brittle star
Web burrfish; Tobaccofish; Sand Diver
Comb jelly; Pederson cleaner shrimp; Spaghetti worm; Channel clinging crab; Cushion starfish; Hawksbill turtle
 Gray angelfish (intermediate); Blue tang (juvenile); French angelfish (juvenile)
Drumfish (adult & juvenile); Spotted drumfish (black spots on white body); Buffalo trunkfish; Smooth trunkfish (white spots on black)

Friday, March 14, 2014


Purple sea plumes; Red tube sponge; Stove pipe coral ( blue); Social Featherduster; Giant barrel sponge; Ball sponge; Giant anemone; Feather duster

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Tube sponges; feather dusters; variable boring sponge;  christmas tree worm
Silversides; Yellowline arrow crab; Sand dollar; Reef urchin; Sea star
Scrawled cowfish; Orange spotted filefish; Scrawled filefish; Cowfish (variety)
Yellowtail hamlet; Sailfin blennie; Sharpnose puffer

Porkfish; Scrawled Cowfish; Ocean Trigger; Queen Angelfish; Juvenile Damsel; & Red  Squirrelfish