Cozumel 2913 Day 5

Marty and Tammy dropped us off at the dive boat just before 8:00 this morning and we soon departed on the Queen Angel dive boat with our DM, Julio Kin. We headed south to dive on San Francisco Wall for our first dive, but when we arrived the current was very swift and much too dangerous for our group. We then headed to Dalila Reef and hit the water for our first dive. The current here was also very strong, but there was no down draft, because this is more of a flat reef rather than a wall. The current made it difficult to take good photos of the shark, turtles, spotted eel, and many other sea critters that we saw. I didn't post it here, but I took one video as I simply laid out perpendicular to the reef and flew by. It gives a good idea about just how fast the current was. We actually "flew" over both Delila and Cedral Reef on the same dive!
The second dive was much more tranquil. We dove at San Clemente Shallow and the current was much nicer. We saw many very small critters, including Lettuce Nudi-Branch, Gold Coral Blennie, Yellow Jack Drum, Spotted Drum and several other small marine life. We also saw two Scorpion Fish, some huge Parrot Fish (4-5 ft long), and a large Puffer Fish (18 -24").
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Squirrel Fish

 

Lettuce Nudi-Branch (can you find him?)

 

Spotted Moray Eel

 

Scorpion Fish (master of disquiet)

 

Blue Cleaner Shrimp on a Sea Anemone

Gueze's Butterfly Fish

 

Gold Coral Blennie (can you find him?)

 

One Eyed Butterfly Fish