Snorkeling in the Caribbean

[Stoogie]

Hi everyone,

I just got back from a week in Mexico, and I thought you might like to see some of the pictures I took while snorkeling on a shallow reef. I've managed to ID a few of the obvious fish, but there's a few (like the blue spotted guy) that I've not been able to identify.

[Stoogie]

[gklaw]

Very cool pictures. Looking forward to my Hawaiian trip Hoping to get a camera that does U/G video as well

[Stoogie]

Yeah, I got some video too but I've not had time to process any of it since I got home. It'll be posted here soon too It's a little jerky though, it's hard to keep the camera steady when you're getting crashed around by the waves.

[monkE]

beautiful pics! i went snorkeling in Tobago Keys and it was amazing! wish i had an underwater camera for that! that stingray shot at the end is awesome.

How deep was the reef from the surface?

[Dietmar]

Wow, awesome pics and I am sure you had a ball snorkeling.
Where in Mexico?
What settings on the camera do you use? Whenever I try to take pics, they are mainly blue.

[Stoogie]

That's actually an Eagle Ray, I think. It's too bad there's nothing to show how big it was, when my wife saw it she took off swimming the other way. The reef ranged from about five feet at the shallowest, and down to about twenty or so. That ray was in about 25 feet.

We were in Akumal, it's between Playa del Carmen and Tulum. The reef was in a bay by one of the resorts, in swimming distance from shore. My poor wife got dragged along four times on our five day trip

You can counteract the blueness that you get by fiddling with your white balance, but it really only works down to about ten feet. After that, it's too blue to fix. If you have photoshop, you can do it after the fact as well.

[m_class2g]

awesome french angel!!!

[gklaw]

awesome french angel!!!

Yaaa, I sooooo want one for my tank. May try again one of these days when my SW tanks are more settled.

[gklaw]

BTW, Stoggie, what camera did you shoot with ?