Moray Eel, Snorkelling at Coral Bay (Bills Bay)
We snorkelled off the beach here at Coral Bay three times today. First this morning we went out at about 8:00 as the tide was low just before that. As well there was no wind, and so the water was quite a bit clearer than it was the other two times we went in the afternoon. We snorkelled for a little over an hour, and saw a lot of very interesting fish, including a moray eel, and a giant clam. There were also many outstanding corals of a number of different kinds.
Snorkelling at Coral Bay (Bills Bay)
After we returned from snorkelling in the morning I edited pictures and video (my underwater camera did start working again though I don’t really know why it quits). Then we went snorkelling again right after lunch. This time we went farther to the south where we had been told it was the best snorkelling, but with the tide now in it was too deep and so we drifted back over closer to where we were this morning. There we found a number of other fish, though the water was now more turbid. We quit close to 3:30, and when we came in some men had been feeding large fish close to shore. Enid saw one that was blue and brown, but the ones I saw were plain silver. After that I did another round of picture editing, and then we returned back to snorkel again at about 4:00 pm for another hour. The tide was now lower and although the water was a bit choppy, there was again good snorkelling. You can drift here at Bill’s Bay from the south end towards the north with little effort. The most interesting fish we saw was a ray with a very long tail. It was swimming so fast that it was hard to photograph, as it got too far away very quickly. Many of the pictures and video that I shot today have been uploaded to www.digipac.ca/pictures.