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| Relaxing at Hurricanes after diving. |
Thursday we again went to the Hol Chan Marine Reserve and dived Boca Chica Canyon, then a shallow dive through the Hol Chan (little channel) where the schools of fish, variety of marine life is just amazing. We had fun playing with the plume worms as they disappeared when we brushed with water. And spaghetti worms disappeared when touched. A little white fish blended with the sandy bottom and suddenly disappeared into a hole. Turiano killed a pesky lion fish and then fed it to a moray eel. The eel chomped on it, spit it out, turned it around, chomped again, spit it, chomped again and swallowed. Fun to watch.
The current was quite strong flowing out so we drifted like jelly fish through the channel going out, then had to stay close to the reef and bottom to swim back against the current the "little channel" (Hol Chan) to the boat.
We had nachos in the late afternoon at Hurricanes and ended up not going out to dinner as I've come down with a cold and wanted to get some rest.
Today, Friday, we did two more dives, the first Cypress Canyon had several gorgeous swim throughs and deep canyon walls. Second, Esmeralda sported large nurse sharks, grouper and schools of sky blue fish and giant moray eels on each side of the canyon. Spectacular.
Watch out for those lionfish. I have heard they are poisonous. (I hope your cold goes away fast.)
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