Snorkelling in the US and British Virgin Islands!

[Diana]

Originally Posted by Chin_Lee

Diana
Great photos!
Do you recommend that camera for average joe citizen taking underwater photos? (how many shots did you have to take before getting those nice photos?)

Which islands did you visit?

Can you see what kind of fry were living in the urchin?

Chin, yeah its for the joe citizen! Its just perfect. We can take the cam to the beach, take above water pics, and then jump in the water with it and not have to think twice. Its a small, compact camera. And the pics turn out great! You have to get used to holding it steady in the waves, but it has a little flash that really helps bring out the colors of corals and fish. It has 3 underwater modes, one of them a macro. Raf takes most of the underwater pics. I think the biggest pain is just aiming at your subject with a mask on, but once you get hang of it its great. Then you can instantly view your pic right there underwater to see if its worth keeping. It helps too that the visibility down there was AMAZING.

We went to St. Thomas, St. John, Virgin Gorda, Tortola, and Jost van Dyke. The trip to the BVI's was just a day trip, but we got to do some snorkelling.

No idea what fry they were. So small! They looked kinda like little clownfish fry, but really could have been anything. There were little groups of them all over the reef.


Tom, Raf and I have "the plan" of moving somewhere tropical. We are just not cold weather people! Especially if global warming is going to rob us of our few months of nice weather here. Its probebly going to be Hawaii for 6 months of the year. Ah well, we can dream at least!

Thanks guys
Cheers
-Diana

[Lance]

Thanks for the wonderful pics. Looks like a great way to spend a holiday.

[S.D]

Hi Diana,

Great pictures, thank you so much for sharing them with us. It looks like you had a fabulous time!

What a great way to spend a holiday!

Sarina

P.S.... LOVE the parrot fish and the turtle!!!

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Beautiful Pics! I actually used snorkelled in the mangroves near my house in Florida quite often and agree, it is quite an experience. These pics kind of make me miss living down there, until I remember how much better the quality of living is here in Canada. That's compared to the actual US though, not the US or british Virgin Islands I would move there is a heartbeat if there was actually work for me!

[danny zubot]

Thank you soooo much for sharing. Those are very nice pics.

[Snappy]

Spectacular pictures Diana! Thanks for sharing.

[Raf]

Not sure if you guys want to see more pics, but here are some more anyway...

[Raf]

sorry for the image overload...

[Reefhawk1]

Beautiful pictures!