Cricket loves to go scuba diving and he bought a special camera to his last few diving trips. I do love a good deep-sea friend and every time Cricket goes diving I ask him to wave and say hello to the fishies, which he says he does (there’s no way for me to really check up on that, I have to take his word). When he returns he asks me to remove some of the blue from his photos. There’s only so much I can do but on many of his photos I clean out a lot of the blue tint. Here is an example.
This photo collection is from several trips so I’m going to break it up into several entries, because many things to share. Let’s dive in, shall we? (I’m so sorry.)
Here is a random assortment of some of the stunners Cricket has come across. The ocean has some truly magnificent treasures.
Look how many fish!
I know animals do not have the same emotions as us and it is ridiculous for us to force our human qualities on them but I do it anyway. Shoot me, I like to anthropomorphize. Anyway, I call these “concerned fish.”
A ray. Look at his pretty pretty pattern. He has dots and then his dots have dots.
I do not know the name of this guy, so I christened him The Toadfish. I like his angry expression and stripery.
Skinny crab! It’s real skinny and it has glowy-glowy claws.
Here is another skinny crab but the reason I included this is because of the pignose anemone/coral/whatever in the background.
I call this The Ooog. I have no idea what this is. I’m not positive I want to know.
Cricket sees turtles fairly frequently and what’s cool is he gets to watch them eating coral. You know that’s how sand is made, right? Part of it is crushed seashells and part of it is munched-on coral that turtles have eaten.
I feel like the fish off to the side is like, “Sooo, eating coral again? Going well? Good talk, good talk.”
Here’s a super teeny tiny crab.
And here’s a super teeny tiny seahorse.
Here’s a closeup of the seahorse because it is so teeny tiny it’s hard to see.
Stonefish! A decomposing heap of ocean debris masquerading as a fish and if you step on it it can kill you!
A barracuda.
A blenny in its home-hole.
A blenny with great eyebrows. I have named him Martin Scorsese and if you don’t know why look Mr. Scorsese up on Google and take in those glorious furry forehead caterpillars.
No idea what this is. Any information would be most appreciated.
Cricket sees many hermit crabs on his journeys. Here is a sweet little guy on a pile of some kind of beautiful organic netting, possibly seaweed.
Here’s an extremely small guy. Cricket said it was the size of the pad on your pinkie finger.
This crab had eyelids!
This crab has eyelashes!
Shrimps bein’ shrimps. Some with glowy-glowy claws like the skinny crabs.
A grouper at a cleaning station. The big fish pull into the station and little fish go into their mouths and pick the goonk and bacteria out.
And I leave you at this time with a large grab in a lovely multicolored setting. Super photogenic.
