Day 11: Costa Maya - Our Snorkeling Adventure (part 2)

After walking around the Malecon, we are ready to get back in the water and cool down.  Our second snorkeling adventure turns out to be a better than the first.

As you can see there are lots of Blue Tangs here:





Blue Tangs have a white or yellow spine on the base of their tail as seen in this picture:


Hubby finds a live conch:


A Blue Striped Grunt on the left and a Stoplight Parrotfish (Initial Phase) on the right:


Dark Blue Tangs, Grunts, and Stoplight Parrotfish:




Grunts, Blue Tangs, Blue Head Wrasse, and Banded Butterfly Fish:


And they seem to be going in one direction.  Okay, there’s a trick to underwater photography.  Patience and watch the light underwater:







There’s always one or two swimming in the wrong direction:







Do you know how hard it is to get them to turn around and pose together?  What a photo op!