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Sun, 22 May 2005

Trip to the Keys

Today we made a full-day trip to the keys to the west of Utila. Our first dive was at Spotted Bay, and I got to take a turn with the camera for the day. Saw oodles of Flamingo Tongues (still none of the Fingerprint variety), and one extremely large and beautiful Black Grouper (in a white camouflage pattern) at a cleaning station. The Christmas Tree Worms in the Brain Coral would have turned out so much nicer with just a bit more depth of field.

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The highlights of the second dive, at Ragged Cay, were a lovely cluster of Feather Duster Worms, a juvenile Spotted Drum, a Rock Lobster, and a very complacent Nurse Shark visiting a cleaning station.

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After the dives, we picked up lunch at Morgan Key and stopped off at Bell Key to eat, relax and snorkel a bit. Saw a small Black and White Spotted Moray and a Flame Clam under a small coral head, but couldn't quite get a decent shot.

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