I spent three weeks on the Bay Island of Utila, Honduras to get my divemaster...I'll be back in the summer to study these reefs for my PhD!
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my girls! got to assist teaching them from open water through advanced diving
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the island of Utila
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cays
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I'm leading the dive!
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Sandy Cay
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'sea rods' or octocorals
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hermit battle
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bats
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billions and billions of staars
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pilar coral
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red banded shrimp in a sponge
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underwater bikes
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small sea fan on Halliburton wreck
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flamingo tongue snail munchin on the octocoral
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rope sponge
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sponge and octocoral
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barnacles before I opened them
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barnacles in an octocoral
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peak a boo
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beautifully diseased and overgrown sea fan
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pipefish dance
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crabby crabster
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fireworm on an octocoral
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seahorsey n' sponges
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sponges with brittle star arms entwined around them
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spotted eagle ray
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pipefish amidst sea fans
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crinoid on sea fan
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seahore on sponges
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octo at night
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decorator crabs
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hello mr. seahorse
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blue bell tunicates, growing over hydrocoral, growing over octocoral...
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inside the shipwreck looking out the window at all the black coral growing off the edge
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sponge skewered by a sea-rod
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sea fan damaged - disease?
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flamingo tongue snail eating polyps
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bad snorkeler dragging himself along on the coral, through my transect
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...adorable dog...but probably gave her fleas
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i love the little tunicate that looks like a piggie nose
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top of the Coral View Beach resort bar you can dive off of
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Sandy cay
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Sandy cay
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Sandy cay
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Sandy cay cat
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Sandy cay chicken
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Sandy cay shambles
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banana drink...quite tasty
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disease!
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crinoid or feather star
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I had to lead dives I had never been on for my divemaster certification, "are you O.K.?"
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typical Honduras house
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lion fish are invasives...
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christmas tree worms
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salt water swimming pool at night
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blue chromis fish
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tiny decorator crab in sponge
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peek-a-boo mr. pipefish!
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little decorator crab in black coral
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basket star feeding out at night
