Turtles O’ Plenty 8/9

It was a nice mellow afternoon today with only a handful of divers on the Sea Fox.  We had Sheri and Kelly out for some relaxing dives and Alberto working on his PADI open water certification.  For the first dive we hit Koko Craters and had nice conditions as we headed to the bottom.  There was a little bit of current and surge but it was a great dive.  There were turtles everywhere around the reef. Throughout the dive we found 12 turtles swimming about or resting under the ledges.  They are used to divers and just go about their business without a care in the water. There were also reef fish all about with damselfish and butterflyfish swimming around us. Before the end of the dive we came across a couple octopus hiding in the reef.

For the second dive we dove Turtle Canyons and again found a few more turtles resting on the bottom. We also had schools of wrasses and unicornfish swimming all over the reef. We found a few eels about the site including a large yellow margin morey and a smaller white mouth morey.  It was a great day and a nice relaxing afternoon, a perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon.