Lots of pics from diving in St. Maarten last week (~70 pics)

[eyebedam]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10735824#post10735824 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by waynesworld
I know some of the places if you get caught taking stuff they throw the book at you Pregnant.

Yeah I know. I was getting alot rics from a person off of ebay but rumor has it they got caught illegally taking them. Havent heard from them in over o manth.

 

[fishdoc11]

Very nice Gary....thanks for sharing.

We will be headed down that way (the Caribbean somewhere) after I graduate.....and hopefully much more often after that

Chris

 

[SRT80]

what kind of tang is that in the 10th and 40th pic? Looks like a yellow tang...but blue. Pretty cool. Was there a school of them?

Steve

 

[fishdoc11]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10743168#post10743168 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SRT80
what kind of tang is that in the 10th and 40th pic? Looks like a yellow tang...but blue. Pretty cool. Was there a school of them?

Steve

It's an Atlantic blue tang.

 

[gflat65]

I've heard them called a poor man's purple tang, but I think they are pretty nice looking tangs.

 

[gflat65]

Oh yeah... You do usually see a number of them at a time, though usually not in stereotypical school form. They usually blanket an area and munch on the rocks. There were so many fish...

 

[gflat65]

Here are some terrestrial shots. I was playing with the new lens and love it (Canon 70-200mm L IS f/4.0). I got some nice panoramics, but am not sure how I'll ever get them posted. I haven't done the save for web option yet in Photophop to reduce size, but one is 10MB now... I put 15 or so pictures together. The images are crisp. Some of these shots were taken by my wife in the car while stuck in a traffic jam, so they aren't as crisp as others, but that is a special cause. Love the lens. I started enjoying sunsets, too.

Pool and Simpson Bay from balcony

Carnival cruise ship shot from balcony

Mountains in the mist

Resort Kitty (every one we've been to has had at least one)

Flowers in plants outside out rooms

 

[gflat65]

Other color shots

 

[gflat65]

Harbor shots

Water spout

Rainbow the day we left

The pelicans loved our dive boat.

 

[gflat65]

Seascapes

Playing with zoom

 

[gflat65]

Sunsets and clouds

 

[gflat65]

 

[ocd_mariner]

Nice pics gary. My family was in st. maarten last year around august. Nobody is a certified diver, but we are all obsessed with snorkling. There was a tropical storm blowing through right at the end of our vacation. The great thing was, when it really started to come down, we were at the sushi bar next to this beach (it was happy hour and the drinks were FREE!). So we drank and watched the planes buzz the beach, mucho fun


You didn't grab any of your own pics from that beach did you?

 

[crumbletop]

Man, those pics remind me of good times ... The water is beautiful.

 

[fishdoc11]

Hmmmmm...I wonder why Gary took this one......or was it Jenn

 

[gflat65]

Jenn took that one after a rude comment from me.

Chuck-we didn't find that area until the end of the week. We met up with the dive crew for a beer or two that Friday night and that's where they recommended ($0.50 Heineken). We went back after checking into the airport the next day. That seems to be where all the fun was.

 

[Pickupman66]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10869410#post10869410 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishdoc11
Hmmmmm...I wonder why Gary took this one......or was it Jenn

I was thinking the same thing......

 

[NeveSSL]

Wow... I would so be on that beach with the jets... Thats a crazy photograph!

Brandon

 

[brandon2432]

Thanks for making me have withdraws from the Caribbean.