Last Week at Cap Ternay

This was my last week as a volunteer on base at Cap Ternay - tomorrow I move into Beau Vallon to start my dive master internship at the Seychelles Underwater Centre, which I am pretty dang excited about. This past week was filled with diving, diving, more diving, some incredible sunsets, gorgeous scenery and a final Mexican Fiesta BBQ (I'm sure you'll see photos on Facebook - $10 if you can guess what I am dressed up as). I saw two white tip reef sharks this week, along with heaps of other cool fish and the usual underwater creatures. We took another trip to the waterfall yesterday and went for a swim in the freshwater, which feels quite funny after swimming in salt water for so long, I almost forgot how to tread water.  Last night was the most incredible sunset at Baie Ternay - while we were sitting on the rock watching the clouds change colors - a baby squid swam up and starting circling around the rock, followed by a baby lemon shark! Incredible. I am truly grateful each day to be here living this awesome life and it pretty much just keeps getting better. Here are highlights from the week - enjoy!

There is actually a white tip reef shark under that rock, I swear

Crown of Thorns

Peek-a-boo

Calamari. I mean a school of squid.

Life on the reef

More life on the reef

Powder blue surgeon fish

Oriental sweetlips

BEST PHOTOS SERIES EVER - Jumping into the waterfall....

Ahhhhhhh!!!!



Ahhhhhhh!!!!

Ahhhhh!!!

Ahhhhhh!!!

Ahhhhhh!

Hold your breath

splash

Yay! You made it!

Sunset

the rock

Sunset

Diving, Diving and More Diving

Here's what I've been doing for the past few weeks....more diving. Big surprise! I love it more every time - here are some highlights from the past month including squid, lots of turtles and colorful fish. 

Squid!

Manta (the boat)

Lilot

Emperor angelfish, oriental sweetlips (the fish), Carmen (the other diver)

Navigated all the way back to the boat!

 Box fish

Carmen, turtle, Lee

Cleaner shrimp

Dan

Little grey eel, large yellow starfish and urchins

Emperor angelfish

Can you find the turtle?

Large female green turtle

Female green turtle

Female green turtle

Juvenile semicircle angelfish

Me, doing a coral quad

Me again!

Me, still hard at work

Eel!

Purple leaf fish - can you see it?

Purple leaf fish again (hint, it is on the left in the orange coral)

Crazy lion fish

crazy lionfish again

Liz at Lilot

Large male green turtle

large male green turtle

large male green turtle

morning rainbow over BTC

can you find the nudibranch?

Octopus

Octopus, still trying to hide

Octopus

Enough photos, he swam off

Oriental sweetlips

Regal angelfish

fish at Lilot

Large school of fish at Lilot

Adult semicircular angelfish

Seychelles anemone fish defending their territory

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Snake eel

awesome striped eels

Trumpet fish!

Hawksbill turtle

Hawksbill turtle hiding under a rock

White mouth eel

White mouth eel

more fish at Lilot