Also Day 2

This was the orangest coral I've ever seen.  It was very cool.

Sea slug or something.  Our guide was obsessed with them and pointed them out everywhere.

Can you see the ghost shrimp?  They white stuff belongs to them.  I don't know what they are really called, but they are like apparitions, specters, phantoms, and the like.  

Cool fish.

A six fingered starfish?

School of fish.  It went on forever.  The video panned for about 20 seconds across the fish.

School of catfish.

This was a cool thing.  I don't know what it is, but I stuck my camera in there to get a close up and it pulled inside itself!  I caught it on video and it spooked me.  I didn't know it did that.

He was buried in the sand, minding his own business when we came along.  See the blue spots?

I thought this coral looked like a tribal mask of some sort.

The current was strong, so everyone was out, trying to stay in one place.

A different creature (I really need to start learning aquatic animals.)  It has blue spots like the other one.

You can see by the way the anemone is being bent that the current was strong.

This sea turtle popped out of that crevice and looked surprised to see us.  We were certainly surprised to see him.  The crevice didn't look that big.

Squid!  And look at that sand pattern.

Can you see it?  He doesn't think so.

Finally on Day 2 of Diving Pics

A better picture of a seahorse.

Cute little baby fish.

The Philippines try to create reefs, I guess to keep people coming.  But so far I'd say it has mixed results.  It attracts fish, but still looks like tires in the ocean.

A lion fish just chillin.  They are always chill.  I haven't seen one swim yet.  I'm guessing they do, though.

I thought this was a neat pic despite the air bubbles in my lens.

This clown fish was bound and determined to scare us off.

He swam right at Carina's face.  She swam away.  You can see his family in the background.  The other adult also attacked us, but not as aggressively.

This clump was actually a school of fish that stayed about this size, but zigzagged all around.  It was cool to see the coordination they demonstrated.

Another type of puffer fish.

I think this is the fish with the spear on the end.  They can stab people.  Our instructor's friend had to go to the hospital because the fish speared him through the wrist.

A pair of puffer fish.

My display.  It means I'm at 8 feet deep, my deepest was 83, I've been diving for 44 minutes, and I can stay at 8 feet for about 10 hours before I have to do a decompression stop.  No worries, I will run out of air before 10 hours.

I thought the coral looked like a flower arch.

I don't know what this is, but it's looking at me.

This brown thing is, in fact, a seahorse.  You can see it's tail wrapped around the rope.

More Undersea Pics

I thought this was cool.  It was just sitting there, by itself in the middle of the mud.

Do you see the flounder?

The boat we went on our dives with.

Carina doesn't like her pic taken, so I sneaked one in.  My hair gets awesome when I dive.

This clown fish was attacking us.  It had babies in the anemone.  If you look closely, you can see one.

Once again, each stalk you see is an eel.  You can't see it too well in this pic.  

Purple coral!

If you look at the one in the middle, it has lots of black and white fish in it. They are all facing the same direction because the current was really strong and they had to "just keep swimming."

Blue fishes.

I think the long white thing was some sort of sea worm.

Undersea Pics

Look UP!  There were a lot of fish in the Philippines.

When I get bored, I take pictures of myself.

He really just wanted to get away.

Puffer fish.

So many tiny blue fish.

Do you see the cool looking fish in the middle of the screen?  He kind of blends in.  Blue tail, yellow stripes...

Palm tree and lion fish.

Pic of the coral.  I'll add just coral pics from time to time.

I think they look like mazes.

This is the coolest fish ever.  He looks like an angry bird.  I named him Henry.

Another side of the Henry, the Angry Bird.

Looking over the top of one coral bolder and onto the next.

The blue fish are like electricity on top of that round coral.

Purple Fish!!!

Dive buddies.  The water was really murky, in case you can't tell by these pics.  The water on Guam is usually much clearer.  When I go to Palau in a few weeks, the water there is also supposed to be really nice.

Peek-a-boo fish.  You have to look into the coral to get the real story of what is going on.

I know I haven't blogged in a while.  Putting underwater photos on here is a lot harder than it should be.  I have to download the GoPro video, open up a new app, look at all the videos, pause it when I want to extract a photo, and then capture the photo.  Then I have to go to blogger and upload all the photos.  It's why it's taken me a while to get to this point.  Add to that the fact that I'm still learning how to use this app, and the GoPro, and because of that all my files are mixed up and I can't tell what I've been through and what I haven't.  I started putting everything into a done folder when I know I've been through the videos and captured the pictures, but now my computer is filled with folders and sub-folders.  Hopefully I will learn through this ordeal and the next time I can get through these faster.  I don't think I will get through them all today.  But I finished a pretty big folder today, so we'll see.  I also have to figure out what is wrong with my GoPro.  It broke halfway through the trip.  I think it needs a software update, but that means I have to figure out how to connect it to the computer and update the software.  This is a work in progress, people.  Just hand in there until I figure out how all the different cameras, SD cards, and apps work.