Today we did 2 nice dives with Cabrits Dive Centre in Dominica. The weather wasn't perfect so they were concentrate on small stuff dives but we were well rewarded. The first dive site had beautiful soft corals and a nice swim through. On the second dive under the cruise ship dock (see unexciting photo of the structure) we came across more unusual marine creatures including seahorses featured in the next post. The dive site itself is called 'Pole to Pole' and a lot of night dives are conducted there also as the ecosystem is so varied. The Divemaster spotted the head of a sand snake poking out and dug it out of the sand for us all to see. It swam off very quickly but I managed to get a photo of it's head. The first time that I had seen one of those. Another guy on the trip stirred up a flying Gurnard and this is a photo of it with his fins almost fully out. Also captured a bristle star (not amazing but I like the photo) and some kind of basket star which the Divemaster put on his hand then had a lot of trouble prying off. Also spotted another rather unhappy scorpian fish on this dive that had eyes that looked like it had been chewing some of the local weed. In one crevice on the first dive I spotted 5 lobsters sheltering from predators including the human variety.
I like the gurnard
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