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Not a bad guess except for the lack of a precipice :) It's a surface buoy line, helps the boats position us accurately over the common dive sites. This site and a lot of the others were to the left or right of the St Fredricksberg pier, boats were taking us maybe half a mile or so to the site. Could've swum it technically, especially with that warm calm water. Just would've been hard to get repeat dives in, and kinda hard to see the buoys from our drop point at the dock. Gotta be real precise on your compass headings lol

Yeah, that was a fun find. Credit to our divemaster from Nep2une Charters in St Croix for pointing it out, btw. I've tried to tag them in a lot of these videos but haven't had any luck with it. We did I think six boat dives with them in the bay area around the dock we were diving under... I'm generally not a fan of concierge diving where the crew preps your gear for you, but they did a great job of it and our dives were super smooth. Totally recommend them for anyone headed out that way :)

Yeah, they're a bit bulkier than barracuda but overall pretty similar. I've still got 50+ videos to process, one of which is a very large barracuda for comparison :) Good eye on the tail; vertical symmetry is actually more telling in cartilaginous fish (rays, skates, sharks) than in bony fish. Many sharks have significant assymetry but are still active predators (blues, lemons, threshers, hammerheads, reef sharks, bulls, tigers, etc), but when you see near-symmetry you're always looking at a mackerel shark, and all 5 species are either ambush (white) or pursuit (short/longfin mako, porbeagle, salmon) predators. For bony fish it's a little more complex to read, but torpedo-shaped body, big tail deeply-forked tail, and big eyes are all good hints.

I think small tropical fish are in the same category as little brown birds - some you can figure out, but there's a million options :) Most of the morays were probably 18-24", remember the GoPro is wide angle so everything's a bit bigger than it looks. But yeah, they get much bigger elsewhere. We saw mostly spotted moray which can grow to around 5 ft - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_moray

As you should :) The beef bones are a lil hazardous and a bit rough on their teeth so they don't get many, but it does seem to be their absolute favorite treat (and the only one they don't just inhale in 2 seconds flat) so once in a while is the compromise

It averages out over time :)

Naw, that's the dining room table. It's mostly my computer desk when I'm back visiting home. He's welcome to it, I just want a little space for my keyboard :p

Koda wins every time. Jack Russell energy > * (where * even includes twitchy lab-mix energy)

I agree! One of those two is a pest common to every big city on earth, and a leading carrier of disease. The other... is a crab. Crabs are pretty neat. :)

No blue stones aside from the graffiti, my old phone just leaned toward cool colors that make the grey to steel grey rocks in the brown stones appear blue-ish. This is at the chimney area of Munits after an easy non-technical but fun climb/rock scramble from the base. The first view straight down the hole is the chimney itself, which also has anchor bolts for rock climbing. To the left after the camera pans over is the way I came from - another tunnel that's more of a rock scramble than a climb. I keep meaning to record the whole thing from the start but always forgetting either my GoPro or the head mount for it... I'll go back soon as it cools off a bit and hopefully remember next time :) The whole thing is quite beginner-friendly, no gear needed. I usually wear basic hiking sandals here and I've taken plenty of non-climbers without issue. You'll want vaguely decent cardio if you wanna climb to the top and see Castle Peak, but Munits can be done by most anyone who's basically healthy and interested in this sort of thing.

Good guess but nah, I think they mostly smelled like a) my feet and b) the river I'd been walking in earlier in the week. No idea which of those was catnippy to him lol

No, it's a moth hummingbird :p

This one actually took me a few tries to work it out. I liked it because it's mostly a balance problem; physically easy but the correct weight shifting makes or breaks it. Was great practice so I kept going back to it until they took it down. Usually I'm a big fan of regular route rotations, but every now and then they replace a great route while I'm still using it :)

Not sure if this one was migrating or just didn't realize the perils of oncoming traffic, but he scooted along out of harm's way anyway with a lil encouragement

now i want crabby patties

Yeah, we're not even scary to them. More just an obstacle, like a toddler on a hockey rink lol

Yeah, they had a fair amount of brown on them. And some white. Good to know there's a name for them; I just thought they'd stepped in something icky :p