Night dives bring out all kinds of critters you don't see during the day. Here is a very cool, ugly, fun looking critter, I believe called a Slipper Lobster!
I'm sure that these would be tastier than the Slipper Lobster, but not here
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we're in a Marine Park!
These guys during the daytime look kind of like a nest of tent caterpillars in the Pacific NW except growing on a Gorgonian underwater, and at night they open up to feed. I think it's a type of basket star, but again, no ID book.
I love coming up on sleeping Parrot Fish!
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Much easier to photograph at night!
These Christmas Tree Worms were thick enough to look like their very own Christmas Tree farm!
And last, but certainly not least, there were the ever present Tarpon. They shadowed us on every night dive, using our lights to hunt. It was so amazing watching them come out of the darkness, then accompany us the entire dive moving in and out of our lights. They especially liked it when Sounder spotlighted a potential meal, which with his 35 watt water boiler he could do from 30 - 40 ft. away. They would cruise up, turn on their side, and proceed to give a little fishie the scare of their life, however long or short it ended up being being determined by their agility and luck. This tarpon was at least 5' long. I hear they grow to 8'!
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