The diving and snorkeling were unreal. Never seen anything like it.
Here's a random few school of fish from one dive:
This is me checking out a big
tasselled wobbegong shark:
It's hard to see them all, but there are five black tip reef sharks visible in this snorkeling photo:
Swam with sharks pretty much every single day I was there.
Dove down to hang out with this school of barracuda, and who's that down there in the center? Yep, another blacktip reef shark:
The white tip reef sharks mostly hung out on the bottom sleeping. Only saw them when diving. This is about 20 meters below the surface. The one below is still asleep. The one above just woke up:
Found some huge cuttlefish one day while snorkeling. They had no fear and were happy to swim right up next to me:
Cuttlefish are magnificent creatures. I recommend watching a youtube video to see them change color and observe how they move. They look a little funny, but they are really cool. This was the closest I've ever been to a big one.
This one is kind of tough to see. It's a screenshot from a video I took. I was snorkeling with a French woman and she kept swimming over the nests of
titan triggerfish. These fish are extremely aggressive during breeding if you swim anywhere near their nests. They also have pretty big teeth and can chomp a hole right through your fins. This one charged her first, turning around less than a meter away, then went back down to its nest. Then it charged her a second time, same thing. On the third charge, it was done messing around and actually bit her in the leg. She freaked out a bit but calmed down and we got her out of the water pretty quick and patched her up. This is from the second charge:
The triggerfish is the black & yellow shape directly under her. This is right before he turned back around.