(179 pics) Photographs from the second third of our 2004 trip to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, when we stayed on the sailboat Fortitude. Please read the journal before looking at the pictures (link).
Queen parrotfish (Jul 21, 2004, 03:36pm) I have a lot of difficulty taking pictures of fish. The Canon Elph camera that I use has a noticeable auto-focus delay, aggravated by the lower light conditions under water. The fish have a tendency to move away during the few seconds it takes me to get a focus lock on them, so many of the fish pictures are a little blurry. Coral, on the other hand, are easy to take a picture of -- then tend not to move around. Parrotfish are particularly hard. The sight of a snorkeler causes the parrotfish to turn and slowly swim away. I often try to give chase but often end up with just a blurry picture of the parrotfish's tail.
Giant Anemone (Jul 21, 2004, 03:37pm)
School of blue tangs (surgeonfish) (Jul 21, 2004, 03:38pm) Surgeonfish like these blue tangs are often found in large schools that move like a blue blanket across the surface of the reef. As with most fish, they do not run when they see a snorkeler, but they do turn away and move in the opposite direction.