Little Cayman - August 2009

Anemones, but no clownfish

French angelfish being cleaned

Arrow crab

Fairy basslet

Shortnose batfish - maybe an inch long

Saddled blenny (?)

Roughhead blenny

Any guesses?

Redlip blenny

Pederson cleaner shrimp

Banded coral shrimp

Lots of healthy, colorful coral

Christmas tree worms

Flamingo tongue

Garden eels

Spotlight goby

Red hind (?)

Nassau grouper being cleaned

Yellowhead jawfish

Nurse shark

Sharpnose puffer

Pufferfish

Lettuce sea slug

Schoolmaster fish

Squid

Squirrelfish

Yellow spotted stingray

Wreck of the M/V Keith Tibbetts

Located on Cayman Brac, about a 45 minute boat ride away

Originally a Russian destroyer built in 1984 and operated by the Cuban navy

Sunk in 1996

My dive buddy, Kim

Powered by gas turbines

Dottie the divemaster

The stern

Aft guns

Fire control radar

Queen triggerfish

Hawksbill turtle

Remora clinging to turtle

Many of the turtles have been tagged

Bearded fireworm with sea slug in upper right corner

Departing Little Cayman by Twin Otter

Little Cayman Beach Resort