Seychelles Underwater World

Given how sore I felt for the holiday, the underwater world became my restful retreat even more than usual. I spent many happy hours being weightless in the water, forgetting my sore old bones and chasing every poor fish and sea creature in sight, in pursuit of a decent photo. 

These are some of my faves..

I think these are squid – were travelling in a fast moving pack of about 25, and I've only seen these in the BVIs before, so well chuffed to find some more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the prettier boxfish, scouting his way round the coral..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the two lion fish we saw – majestic and always remind me of the Robin Williams film, the Fisher King, which was one of my all-time favourites. You'll have to watch the film to see why..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are a lot of eagle rays to be found – practically every time we jumped in, one, two or even three would be swooping away elegantly with me somewhat less elegantly in hot pursuit.. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ditto turtles – probably saw about 8 underwater and several from the boat as they popped up to breathe. Just lovely and bizarrely friendly. 

And finally, found this leopard-print moray eel (suspect that's not its official name) trying to curl itself into a far too small bit of coral for cover. That was a very happy half hour of duck diving to try and persuade it to poke enough out for a half decent photo.

All in all, lots and lots of underwater magic – plus the dolphins that were just too fast to photograph, and of course a million fish. Visibility was a bit dodgy (Maldives wins that hands down) but for sheer quantity and variety of critters, it was pretty darn good. x