Fri, 19 Feb

Fri, 19 Feb same weather pattern this morning ... :( i heard Brian, Nick, and Marie preparing to go out for stingray observations. of course, i wanted to go too ... i found a nice little patch reef with a couple very photographic Queen Angel Fish ... but, my camera wasn't working. i was hoping that the battery was dead; but unfortunately there was water in it ... it's done ! so, now i won't be complaining about the quality of photos it takes ... :( i tracked a female stingray for an hour and she drug me almost all the way back to our caye. then i had to swim back to the boat, against the current, ....a half hour ordeal ! with workouts like that, i won't be gaining any weight :) after lunch i took an hour nap. while i was sleeping it was decided we would go out and try to track Cuajo again, the little stingray that we tagged. Brian and Marie took first shift. the weather was starting to get nicer ... the sun was shining, .... and i just couldn't sleep.... i had to be outside! so i swam out to the patch reef of our dock and did some snorkeling ... Marie let me use her camera ..... gosh, it takes nice photographs ! random fish on the reef ... i think these are a type of snapper ... this is a Scrawled Filefish ... they are really cool looking and you don't see a lot of them ... maybe it's because they are so well camouflaged .... look closely .... so i took several photos ... parrot fish ... they have such beautiful colors, but are not very accommodating to a photographer... dinner then to bed early, coz i have the early morning shift for tracking little Cuajo, from 12:30am until 4:30am.