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Corals and sponges at Lighthouse Reef
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Caribbean lobster were plentiful in Honduras.
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Spotted spiny lobster
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Strawberry vase sponge. Due to color loss at depth, these look black underwater, but when you shine a light on them, they are actually bright red.
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Trumpetfish are such an unusual shape, and they often hang vertically to camouflage themselves
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Sponges and black water corals at Mary's Place in Honduras
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Jan swimming by a huge barrel sponge at Mary's Place
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Two small slender file fish hanging out in this sea branch. We don't find a lot of these, and this was the only time we ever saw two together.
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Redband parrotfish
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Stoplight parrotfish
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Two of us diving at Gibson Bight in Honduras
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Whitespotted filefish
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Calico cowfish
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Tigertail sea cucumber
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French angelfish
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Juvenile yellowtail damselfish - their spots are almost irridescent underwater.
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Hogfish - these guys are good eating, but he was safe because he was in Roatan's Marine Park.
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Big dog snapper hanging out under our dinghies.
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Red hind laying on the reef
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Rich keeping his eye on a big barracuda
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Indigo hamlet and banded butterflyfish
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There is a scorpionfish in the middle of this photo. Look for his eyes and one of his fins.
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Harlequin bass
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Adult spotted drum. This is one of our favorite sightings.
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An intermediate spotted drum. This guy was pretty shy, so we didn't get a good photo of him.
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And this is the baby spotted drum - so pretty and delicate! We saw more of these in Honduras than we've ever seen anywhere.
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A school of Creole wrasse
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Spotted trunkfish.
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Jan found this baby spotted trunk fish hanging out under a ledge. We don't see many juveniles.
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Blue parrotfish
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Banded coral fish cleaning Jan's fingernails.
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Little chestnut moray hanging out in a coral head.
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School of blue tang - we loved to watch them swimming over the reef.
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Coral head and azure vase sponge.
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Green moray eel.
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Channel clinging crab.
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Spotfin butterflyfish.
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Nassau grouper with cleaning shrimp.
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Nick & Deanna from Caribbean Soul getting a photo of a turtle.
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Big black grouper in front with a tiger grouper behind him.
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Midnight parrotfish.
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Two scrawled filefish.
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Black coral sea fans.
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Spotted eel
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Queen angelfish
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Porcupine fish.
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Arrow blenny - these guys are only 1-2 inches - very tiny.
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This nurse shark was sleeping under a ledge, so we couldn't get a full photo of him, but he was big!
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Brittle starfish on tube sponges
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Rich tries to coax these Pedersen shrimp on to his fingers
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Two french angelfish
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Queen triggerfish
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Rock Beauty
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Baby rock beauty - this was our first and only sighting of one of these juveniles.
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Flamingo tongue snail on a sea fan.
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Christmas tree worms on brain coral
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