A reef in the Caribbean

[philbo32]

Some pictures I took whilst snorkelling in St Lucia last week. Most pictures are too big to direct link so had to post thumbnails, click on individual thumbs to see full size images.


Caribbean parrotfish




Porite SPS



Basket sponge


Not sure what fish this is.


Montipora


Maze coral


Moray


Banded butterflyfish and an ocean tang


Longspine sea urchins



Encrusting coral

 

[philbo32]

Goatfish


Blue tang



Being watched by squid!



Large Gorgonian


bluehead wrasse


Large tangs shoaling


Blenny

Heres a picture of the first 3 squid that I saw on the reef before I saw the others;


A crab feeding on a sea urchin

 

[Octoshark]

Cool, its always nice to see the natural habitat instead of home aquariums under artificial lighting.