Holiday & diving pix

[Snappy]

Recently spent another week in beautiful Puerto Vallarta.

Fire Coral - those little feathers can sting you like crazy (careful with your legs when you swim by)


A bit of Sun Coral inside a cave


Peek-a-boo blenny


Inside a cave there was a nusery with fish at every stage of development - here's some babies


another small hide out with baby fish

Christmas Tree Worms


NPS gorgs with a small colony of Poccilopora in the background

Stand of Pocillopora

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NPS Gorgs

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Nudi - (lousy picture but in my defence the heavy surge made it very challenging to stay still enough to focus the camera)


These "filter feeders" are all over the place- They are similar looking to a sea apple but obviously not as colorful and have these fuzzy arms they draw in plankton with. Very cool animal.


Common Sponge


Blue Sun Coral - (this was the first time I ever noticed this variety)


Do these spines make me look fat?


Master of disguise - stone fish






Pocillopora


A new friend

[Snappy]

What's a surface interval without a family of whales to come up and say hello

Mom & her little one


Dad

[Snappy]

Also went on a river tour to visit some crocidiles








This bird had just caught lunch

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One of the Yellow Fin Tuna I caught out in the bay.


Sunset from our balcony

[Madmak]

Very nice!

I'm there often. Where do you stay and where do you dive? I haven't found locations like that in the bay.

[Coralgurl]

Amazing pics! Those croc pictures literally gave me the shivers!! Just how close were you???

Thanks for sharing!!

[Jason McK]

WOW great shots. Looks like a wonderful trip