Joanne and Brian play in the Big Pool

 

Joanne and Brian have now traveled on the Caribbean Explorer live-aboard dive boat to St. Martin, St. Kitts and Saba island, the Honduran Bay Islands and Turks and Caicos aboard the Agressor, the Nimrod Explorer on the Ribbon Reef structure  of Australia's Great Barrier reef, again the Turks and Caicos aboard the Venture Explorer, the Nekton Pilot on Cay Sal Bank, and the Ocean Hunter 1 in Palau, and ...

Honest mom, each trip we only touched the land two, maybe three times, and one was when we was just comin', and the other was when we was just goin' so we couldn't really help it dem times, and I ate all the food on my plate, and it tasted more gooder, and I went to bed on time, and I tool my naps, and I don't get seasick anymore, and I didn't wet the bed 'cause I hung my suit up, and we even save people, and we didn't even know 'em, well sort of, and I learned new foreign words, and most of 'em I can even say to my sister, and I lernd ta use the new dive computer stuff, and I didn't have to wear shoes, and I saw all kinds of new stuff, and the only thing that bubbled and popped was my ears, and I didn't hit nobody, or nutin', and my new mask made me see stuff way out in the distance...

Joanne and Brian had a real good time and made some new friends. Uh Hu,  Uh Hu,  Uh Hu

Below are some pictures of what Joanne and Brian have seen on their vacations; moving to digital makes that easier.  I've compressed them as far as I can without sacrificing to much quality, sorry for any long load times.

 

2011 Palau trip

The boat Crab Soft coral Soft coral Hard coral Thorns Starfish
Nudibranch Flat Worm Soft Coral Christmas Tree Worm Soft Coral Leaf Scorpon Butter Cup
Butter Cup Starfish Soft Coral Fish Vase Sponge Clown Fish Fish
Nudibranch Shrimp Teddy Bear Nudibranch Goatfish Plate coral Brittle star
Christmas Tree Worm Soft Coral Above water Fish Gorgonian Soft Coral Sea Slug
Clown Fish Crab Fish No Clue Flat Worm Soft Coral Fish
Hard coral Grouper Teddy bear Fish Soft Coral Soft coral Fish
Moray Eel Urchin Above water Flat worm Fish Wrasse Clam
Crinoid Plane Unknown Fish Encrusting Nudibranch Sea Rod
Carpet Soft Coral Clown fish Hard coral Sponge Christmas Tree Brain coral
Hard coral Brittle star Goby Nudibranch Scorpion fish Hydra Sponge
Soft coral Fish Crinoid Disk Wrasse Feather star Joanne
Flat worm Above water Brittle star Anemone Brittle star Seastar Clown fish
Octopus Octopus Clam Soft coral Nudibranch Crinoid Wide angle
Alligator Soft coral Gorgonian Unknown Nudibranch Golden cup Lion fish
Carpet Soft coral Vase sponge Sponge Fish Clown fish Clown fish
Clown fish Big Eye Grouper Jelly Jelly Nudibranch Trumpet
Shrimp Tang Turtle Shark Island Gorgonian Sunset

2010 Turks and Caicos Trip

Great Star Lowrelief Lettuce White Telesto Y Branch Algae
more Lettuce Great Star Golden Crinoid Feather Star
Knobby Sea Rod Azure Barrel Sponge Orange Christas Tree Worm Pink Christmas Tree Worm
Row Pore Rod Sponge Social Feather Duster Social Feather Duster Social Feather Duster
Flamingo Tongue more rod polyp detail Lettuce Leaf Pillar Coral
Gorgonian Octocoral Fingerprint Tongue Smooth Flower coral poly detail
Even closer Green Algae Blue Stars Strange Critter

St Kitts/Saba shots

Sunset Split Pore Gorgonia Hidden Cup Coral Fire Worm 
Flamingo Tongue Feather Duster Arrow Crab Branching Anemone
Balloon Fish Maybe Gorgonian Sex  Long Spine Sea Fan Brain Coral
Elevation of a Duster Brain Coral Detail of Star Coral Polyp Christmastree Worm
Star Coral Life, as we've seen it Tunicate Yellowline Arrow Crab
Chrismas Tree Worm Orange Cup Coral another Orange Cup Coral Azure Base Sponge

Hondouran Shots

Golden criniod Christmas Worm with Algae Feathered Star Spiny Sea Rod
Orange Tube Sponge Fire Coral Brittle Star on Spiny Sea Rod Giant Anemone
Warty Sea Rod Erect Rope Sponge Blue Bell Tunicate Social Feather Duster
Row Pore Rod Sponge Hermit Crab

Australian Great Barrier reef shots

Mystery 1 Mystery 2 Oragne Cup Coral Mystery 3
Banded Brittle Star Anenome Fish Orange Star Fish Banded Brittle Star
Red Feathered Star Bllue Christmas Tree Worm Blue Christmas Tree Worm Bllue Christmas Tree Worm
Warty Sea Rod Erect Rope Sponge Blue Bell Tunicate Social Feather Duster
Warty Sea Rod Erect Rope Sponge Blue Bell Tunicate Social Feather Duster
Warty Sea Rod Erect Rope Sponge Blue Bell Tunicate Social Feather Duster
Warty Sea Rod Erect Rope Sponge Blue Bell Tunicate Social Feather Duster
Warty Sea Rod Erect Rope Sponge Blue Bell Tunicate Social Feather Duster

Cay Sal Bank (30 miles from Cuba)

Mystery 1 Mystery 2 Mystery 3 Mystery 4
Mystery 5 Mystery 6 Mystery 7 Mystery 8
Mystery 9 Mystery 10 Mystery 11 Mystery 12
Mystery 13 Mystery 14 Mystery 15 Mystery 16

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