so this morning's dive: pea soup, really poor viz; this was a shame as it was Teun's birthday and last dive of the holiday. Teun and Maria have been dive buddies on 3 or 4 of the dives I've done this last week. We did see another black lionfish (see below for a pic) and I think it was am eagle ray we saw but need to check that.

So, this morning's dive took me back to the shipwreck 'Harmony' or 'Orestes'. 25m down, just off Galle fort. We saw a similar sized grouper to the one in the pic, sat under the bow ov the ship. Majestic, a word I probably overuse to describe things down below :-)
also saw a blue spotted ray, do your own search for that one. Today's image from:
http://i.livescience.com/images/080821-giant-grouper-02.jpg
thanks

this morning's dive

saw one these this morning whilst on a shallow dive in unawatuna. Majestic and as you can see, quite big close up. It's called a "napoleon wrasse" or humphead wrasse.
Picture from http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/7624917.jpg

Saw one of these today on my second dive. Was with a large group of divers who had stupid amounts of gear and a full on camera man. I waved him over when I spotted it, but he culdnt see it and started filming a rock before swimming off disinterested in said lifeless rock. I stayed and watched the "black lionfish" for a few minutes before the camera man came back past, kicked the fish with his fins as he did so, and then finally saw it and got excited, called his mates over with some clever underwater signal and the fish became a sub aqua niomi Campbell for a while.
Picture from www.thescorp.net