Fintastic Diving Adventures

Congrats Aubrey! We are all super proud of you!❤️🤿

Fifth-grader Aubrey P. earned her open water scuba certification at Blue Water Park.

https://www.woodward.edu/beyond-the-classroom/newsroom/news-post-page/~board/news/post/fifth-grader-earns-scuba-certification

The Salt Pier is one of our favorites as well!

This Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) was just chilling when we found him sitting next to the coral. I have more videos and pictures to come, but he just sat there and was shining and rubbing his shell against the coral. He let me take pictures for days. Green sea turtles are mostly herbivores and they eat sea grass. They migrate extremely long distances unlike all the other sea turtles. They are on the endangered list because people still hunt them for their shells, skin, and eggs. Green sea turtles have a short snout and their beak is unhooked. They have just two prefrontal scales between their eyes, unlike the other turtles that have four or five. Their carapace (shell) is composed of five central scutes down the middle and four pairs of lateral scutes on the sides.

The Longsnout Seahorse (Hippocampus reidi) is always a super rare, but incredible find! This guy was hiding in a coral head that we had passed over before and never even noticed him. He sat there and let me take a million pictures for the photoshoot. Such an amazing find!

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If you follow us, you know I love the flamingo tongues! If you look very closely in between the coral, you can spot one of the guys so tiny but so beautiful in color! The flamingo tongue snail (Ovulidae Cyphoma gibbosum) is a brightly colored sea snail that feeds on soft coral. They scrape the polyps off the coral with its radula, leaving a visible feeding scar on the coral (black line under the snail where it has already passed in the photo). However, the corals can regrow their polyps so they are not generally lethal to the corals they feed on!

We made it!!! Roatan is home for the next week! Get ready for some pictures and videos!