my new favorite fish

After a leisurely coffee/sunrise morning we drove east scoping out a new snorkel spot. Tried a place between 18 and 19 mile marker... Lots of dead coral and very few fish but we did see a white-yellow-orange splotchy snowflake moray eel and a dragon wrasse which is a juvenile rockmover wrasse. This fish was sooooo fun to watch! First of all it's exotically beautiful - - sort of reddish-brown with white spots, a starry eye pattern, and leafy fin extentions to resemble seaweed. It swims as if it were a drifting piece of seaweed swirling loosely with the surge, sometimes stopping to rest on the bottom flopping side to side.

Went back to 20 mile beach which was crowded with locals for the weekend. This time out we saw 2 live cowrie shells about the size of a quarter, and a brown speckled Undulated moray eel weaving through a small rock formation.
Drove to the west side to a small unmapped beach some local called Make Horse (dead horse). Had it all to ourselves for a quick swim at dusk and an awesome sunset with a pod of whales swimming by after sundown. Wow.