I get the co-pilot seat in the Mayan Air Grand Caravan to Ambergris Caye

View of San Pedro Beach from hotel

Blue Hole dive profile (went back down to chase circling sharks)

View of Caulker Caye from the boat after the blue hole dive

Fairy Baslets around some coral

Beautiful Yellow tube sponge

Yellow tube sponge

Indigo Hamlet

Indigo hamlet again - I became obsesed

Tight squeese through the channels and swim-throughs

Up through the mountainous coral

Must Identify

We land at Half Moon Caye for lunch

Half Moon Caye scenery

Half Moon Caye scenery

Half Moon Caye scenery

Large Hermit Crab on Half Moon Caye

"Bamboo Chicken" - as Iguanas are known in Belize

Another Hermit Crab

Hermit Crab hides from me

Red Footed Boobies way up in the treetops

Red Footed Boobies -one with its chest inflated!!

Close up of the Red Footed Boobies

Bye birds, its back to fish

One last big hermit crab

Back in the sea with my friends the striped grunts who follow me

Those beautiful yellow tube sponges are everywhere

Life on an orange sponge

Can you spot the hiding trumpetfish?

Sea cucumber

Lobster tucked under the reef

A prized photo - Juvenile Frogfish!!!

Dolphins!!

Dolphins at my feet!!

Beautiful creatures

Amigos Del Mare - Our guides to the outer Atolls

Another 5:30am start as we head for Turneffe Atoll today

This grouper was in a "cleaning station" inside this vase sponge

"Buffalo trunkfish"

Porkfish - looks like a striped grunt crossed with a banded butterfly fish

Another buffalo trunkfish

A turtle sitting at 95 ft. I risk deco stops to visit him

Look at the markings - It's a Hawksbill Turle!!

Dolphins come to visit me during my safety stop!! (after deco stops, thanks turtle!!)

Dolphins do safety stops!?!?!

Dophins love to bowride with the boats

Brown Garden eel upclose, out of the sand

Yes!! another turle, this time not as deep

I don't like when people touch the turtles :-(

Graceful swimmer

Bye turle (hawksbill again) - thanks for the visit!!

Think I found my home

Cabash Island - home of a bio-marine school

I could be at home here

My new mobile phone (conch shell) and my new home!!

We eat lunch and take off for more diving

Long legged bird back at San Pedro, Ambergris Caye

Nurse sharks on the barrier reef (think this was Tres Cocos dive site)

Nurse shark prowles for food

They are harmless

Hmmm, here are 2 more

Whats this guy want??

Patojo is an old timer (shark hypnotist) who knows how to handle the nurse sharks

Brian gets a closer look

Juvenile Spotted Drum or Jacknife fish

Juvenile Spotted Drum or Jacknife fish

Green Moray Eel

Green Morey Eel getting agressive with me

Rock Beauty

Little damselfish that was really friendly

Close up of little damselfish

Pretty azure vase sponge with the danselfish

Azure vase sponge

Indigo hamlets realatively common down here

Friendliesdt grouper ever, he was letting me pet him!!

Baracuda up close

Grouper in my face

Patojo catches a crab!!

Sunset before our night dive on Sunday (yeah we flew Monday)

Sleeping fish

(Blurry)crab

Stingrays all over Hol Chan Cut at night

Green Moray eel

Another crab we drowned in light

Stingray

A parrotfish with a strange bedfellow,have to find out what it is

Last day of lobster season!!

Stingray shows up out of pitch black again

Octopys

Octopys scrambles to jet away

After a long day Brian orders dinner

I'll miss San Pedro, Ambergris Caye

Pelican in the water

The town church

San Pedro traffic jam

Us with Patojo (aka Elmer) our new friend!!

Dogs have it hard here too

At the airport - someone's going into the chamber

Luckily Ambergris Caye has a chamber

In the Grand Caravan flying back to Belize City. (Wish I had my skydiving rig!)

In the Grand Caravan flying back to Belize City. (Wish I had my skydiving rig!)