Our first stop for day two was Tres Cocos. It was named because before the hurricanes, you could see three tall coconut trees on the land, but they are gone now from the storms. This is how they mark places by what they can see on land. The water was much saltier than I expected, and it was also much rougher than I was expecting. Throughout the day it rained and was windy. Jodi was our boat driver and he also guided us around the reef as we snorkeled. The coral was right under us the whole time and it was very hard to maneuver around it. It was important not to touch the coral because if you touched it, that would cause the coral to die. The rough seas and the worry about the coral made me start to feel sick. Note: Take Dramamine! The second place was Pillar Coral. It is named that because the coral looks like pillars. I finally took the dramamine and felt much better on the second snorkel. There was more room to move and I felt more comfortable at this site. We saw many things throughout the day including:
Tres Cocos:
- sllippery dick
- bicolor damsel
- sargent major
- yellow tail damsel
- french grunt
- bluestripe grunt
- stoplight parrot
- trumpet fish
- yellowtail snapper
- flounder
- conch
- elkhorn coral
- longspine urchin
- sting ray
- foureye butterfly
- porkfish
- blue head wrasse
- spotted goatfish
- surgeon fish
- blue tang
- squirrel fish
Pillar Coral:
- spotted eagle ray
- lobster
- baby seargent major
- shrimp
- fire coral
- green sea star
- gray angelfish
So far, besides being sick, this trip has been everything that I could have asked for! We have seen most of the fish we studied and many more that we have yet to learn. Our snorkeling guides, Ken, Jodi, and Dr. McGinley, are all very good at pointing out what we may not see and telling us what we are looking at. There are many things that I saw, but I cannot remember them all. Tomorrow I am going to do a better job of writing down what we see so I can share.
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