On Tuesday the conditions looked OK for diving so I got my gear together. I turned on the airconditioner in my room for a few minutes and loaded the old D-340-R camera in its housing in a flood of cool dry air and sealed up the housing. I did the same with my old reliable D-420 and hit the beach with both cameras cocked and ready to go.
I guess the proof of the pudding is in the pictures so lets start with one form the old camera.
I like the 340-R because it does not zoom and can focus down to 4 inches. It's down side is that to get the great 'low light' capability it is capable of up to one half second shutter speed. If everything isn't just perfectly still at that speed, it blurrs. From here on I've mixed the pictures from both cameras together.
Now you'll see why they are called 'Rock Beauties'.
Here is a school of Cottonwick
This is a before and after shot of a Christmas Tree Featherduster worm.
Sand Tilefish
This lovely snail is the Flamingo Tongue
Here we have a Spotted Drum fish. It's not rare but this it the first
I've seen this year.
This is the Drum again with a French Angelfish.
It's not often I go to the effort to look up.
I'm not sure but these may be another Goatfish and a young Rock Beauty.
This is a Flounder. They swim upright when young, then one eye migrates
as they become bottom dwellers, living out their lives on their sides.
Here it is again before editing.
This Triton's Trumpet is about a foot long and hanging inside a shallow
cave.
"Tough day, Honey?" (Viper Eel)
"Yah, some clown was using a strobe on the reef today, I thought I'd
gone blind".
"What's for dinner?" (Damselfish)
"Oh, hors deorves first? (Barred Cardinalfish)
"My tummy hurts, I think that might have been one canapé
too many for me"
