Linda and Janel

Turneffe Island Resort - Belize
http://www.turnefferesort.com/

Posing with the great bartender at the Lodge Photograph by Guest in Belize 2004

Dive Journal: We’re diving at West Wall this morning, and Bo immediately finds a turtle busy with his head buried in the wall. It turns out he’s munching on a sponge, and he rips off piece by piece. It seems he’s not really nuts that we’ve showed up, but he’s too busy with the sponge to care very much.

As we cruise along the wall, I locate a small crevice in some corals and find a weird looking worm-like animal. It’s about the diameter of a garden eel, but striped cream and brown from head to tail, and maybe 5” long. It just sits their sideways and doesn’t move very much. I eventually go get Linda, then swim back to have her confirm the sighting. But the unknown creature either moves on or I can’t locate the crevice again.

There are lots of lobsters to see this morning, and another nice moray. Linda finds a pretty adult spotted drum, which is the Turneffe Island Lodge logo (for divers, anyway).

After the dive, I am again shaking my head at how huge the barrel sponges get around here.

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