We were out purely for a fun dive and our mission today was to find a fish we had never seen, The Pink Tailed Triggerfish. We had some information about where 1 or 2 were living on a particular dive site called "Red Rock".
So we began our dive, and went North from Red Rock for about 40 mins and were just about to turn around when we saw them... Awesome fish, very timid (unlike there big cousins!).
Mission completed, we headed back to the boat and ran in to 3 Titan Triggerfish (the big cousins)... One of them was massive (comparable to a pickup truck engine!) and was very aggressive.. After swimming out of his area, he swam around a rock and hid hoping we would come past... so he could attack again! Cheeky damm fish!
In the afternoon, we were out on the longboat this afternoon helping with reef check. It's easy diving just pointing out Substrates, Invertebrates, Fish and any other oddities to the students
Back on land we gathered to discuss their findings and Nathan went through some of his books pointing out numerous corals and discussing what students noticed with regards to coral bleaching, disease & various causes ..doing the Reef Check course really does make you look at the dive sites in a different light.
Both pretty tired and sweaty we headed home. Popping into 'Kanya' our favourite Thai restaurant on the island so far to get a take away
Jen
1 comment:
That fish looks harmless, But Jenny knows from experience their not, yum yum xx
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