Local Diving

Before we went to Saba, we did a couple last dives in St. Martin before the shop closed for vacation. (Last meaning last until the shop opens again, of course!) We dove a couple local sites and I brought along the camera with 85mm macro lens.

Visibility wasn’t superb, but I did get a few photos of fish, including various blennies and a jawfish.

Initial Phase Slippery Dick (<em>Halichoeres bivittatus</em>)
Bass (<em>Serranus</em> sp.)
Spotted Goatfish (<em>Pseudupeneus maculatus</em>)
Porkfish (<em>Anisotremus virginicus</em>)
Banded Jawfish (<em>Opistognathus macrognathus</em>)
Banded Jawfish (<em>Opistognathus macrognathus</em>)
Damselfish
Secretary Blenny (<em>Acanthemblemaria maria</em>)
Rosy Blenny (<em>Malacoctenus macropus</em>)
Secretary Blenny (<em>Acanthemblemaria maria</em>)

As for invertebrates, there were arthropods, mollusks, cnidarians and annelids.

Beaded Anemone (<em>Epicystis crucifer</em>)
Lettuce Sea Slug (<em>Elysia crispata</em>)
Cymothoid Isopod on Grunt
Christmas Tree Worm (<em>Spirobranchus giganteus</em>)
Spotted Cleaning Shrimp (<em>Periclimenes yucatanicus</em>)
Lettuce Sea Slug (<em>Elysia crispata</em>)
Banded Coral Shrimp (<em>Stenopus hispidus</em>)
Banded Clinging Crab (<em>Mithrax cinctimanus</em>)
Christmas Tree Worm (<em>Spirobranchus giganteus</em>)
Ciliated False Squilla (<em>Pseudosquilla ciliate</em>)

I also took a few close-ups of various things in a more abstract fashion.

Spines
Anemone
Sea Field
Openings
Valley
Soft Machine
Spots
Braille
Feathers
Eye of Sauron

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