Creature of the day:  Stoplight Parrotfish

Like some 18th century biologists, I thought these were two different species.  But they're not- the red-tinged parrotfish are the juveniles, the green the adults.  Both are pretty fabulous, and seen all over the place, happily crunching away at the coral.

This morning, we dove with a few other people from the anchorage- we just rented tanks at Fantasy Island, and took our dinghies out to the reef.  We didn't go very deep-  It was lovely and sunny, and we just puttered around at about 40 feet and then came up to an even shallower level.  Last week, we took a Nitrox course so we could use tanks with more oxygen in the mix, and it does seem better- having less nitrogen in the blood should make you less fatigued.  You can stay down longer, too- though you can't go quite as deep.