Did another four dives today, one more than anticipated because I wanted more practice with the camera. My discovery for the day is that diving with a big dSLR housing is not exactly a walk in the park. The first dive was a complete blur; all I remember was struggling with the camera and buoyancy control. The good news is that I'm improving with practice and am getting reasonably comfortable with it. My biggest challenge now is that I'm muck diving and only have a wide angle lens instead of a macro lens to get up close and personal with my subject. I may not have be able to get really nice shots of the 4mm pigmy seahorses we found, but I think I managed to get some pretty pictures nevertheless.
A few more numbers for the day:
- spent a little over four hours underwater
- saw two pigmy sea horses (we're talking about 4mm or so here!)
- saw the biggest lobster I've ever seen: about 3 ft in length, not including it's whiskers, which were another 3ft in length!
- saw 1 electric clam wedged into a crack
- saw 1 octopus with 4 legs
- saw 1 cuttlefish with hundreds of colors
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