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Here are too many shots from our snorkeling excursions on our BVI trip in December 2000. The quality of these is much higher than before due to the much better camera we used. No. Just kidding! The cameras were three identical Kodak disposable underwater cameras. We're either getting better or the lighting was really good and the water was clear.



Banded Butterfly
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Butter Hamlet
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First Mate and First Child enjoy one of the caves at Norman Island's Treasure Point.
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A nice live conch
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The conditions were great for photography, so we took some coral pictures.
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More coral formations.
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A nce sea fan.
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We saw a couple of barracuda.  The larger one was about 3.5', the smaller probably under 2.
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The big barracuda.
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The big barracuda.  Again.
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The smaller barracuda.
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Black Durgon
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A nice flounder.  Note the pectoral fin -- it flips up just as the flounder takes off from resting on the bottom.
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Another view of the flounder
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Juvenile French Angelfish
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Two Frenchies: a Grunt, and a Juvenile Angelfish.
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A buncha grunts.  French, every one of them.
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Gitte fish
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Honeycomb Cowfish
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Honeycomb Cowfish
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Honeycomb Cowfish
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A bottom-dweller: Bluestriped Lizardfish
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Octopus
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An octopus.  We find these rarely enough (great spotting, Gitte!), that they're always the most popular.  Conditions were also clear and sunny, so we took a lot of shots.
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Octopus on the hoof.
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Octopus shows beautiful skirt.
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Still more octopus.
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Octopus gets annoyed at constant clicking of shutter, starts to leave.
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More Octopus
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Orange Filefish
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Parrotfish
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Queen Angelfish
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A pair of Queen Angelfish.  Ran out of film before we saw the group of 6 QAs.
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Rick fish
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Rock Beauty
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A school of Juvenile Clown Wrasses
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Yellowtail Snappers
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Squirrelfish and Urchin
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Southern Stingray
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Another Southern Stingray
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Stingray again
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Stingray with Bar Jack companion.
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Sting and Bar go everywhere together.
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We see large schools of Blue Tangs.  This shot does not really capture the bright flashes of blue as they move in the sun.
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More Blue Tangs.  A little flashier.
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Trumpetfish come in several colors (brown, silver, blue, and yellow) and in quite a range of sizes.  They swim horizontally.
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Brown Trumpetfish hovering vertically.  Nobody here but us corals!
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Blue Trumpetfish
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Trumpetfish
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Smooth Trunkfish.  Related to Cowfish.
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Smooth Trunkfish
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A really cool view of a Spotted Trunkfish, showing the strange body shape.
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More Smooth Trunkfish.
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Smooth Trunkfish yet again.
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We saw several Turtles.  Got close enough to a couple of them to touch them.  This one's visible in the circle.
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Yellowhead Wrasse Supermale
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