Natural Ways - Snorkeling
Underwater pictures from
British Virgin Islands
I was in the British Virgin Islands for six days on November 1996. Its clear waters gave me many opportunities to see fishes and corals. You can check my travel report to know more about it. Visibility was not good enough for taking pictures with Kodak's underwater disposable camera. Anyway, here are some of the images I grabbed there.
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Bluehead wrasse (Thalassoma bifasciatum)
You can see two of them here, with blue head and light green rear separated by black and white bars. These are adults, while the juvelines are yellow with white belly. Adults are about 5 in long and are very common in the Caribbean, swimming by the reefs. |
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Blue tang (Acanthurus coeruleus)
The one in the center looks like one, though it is white or maybe light blue. There is a smaller one, really blue this time, next to it. They are often seen in schools, though sometimes you can see them alone or with other species. Their size is generally between 5 and 10 in, but I believe most of the ones I saw were about 6 in. The many small yellow ones around them are probably juvenile wrasses. |
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Updated on January 22, 1997
