Scuba Diving Mnemba Island, Day 2: Zanzibar

Heading to the boat

After our first day of diving in the warm, beautiful waters around Mnemba Island the group woke up ready for more today. We decided to head out as a united front today, scuba diving in one large group so everyone could share in the experience.

Emperor Anglefish

Fire dartfish (Nemateleotris magnifica)

  I wasn't able to bring my big camera setup this trip due to the weight limitations of all the small safari planes, but I did bring Heidi's compact camera, a Canon PowerShot S110 in an underwater housing to record some of the underwater action out here off the coast. All of these pictures were taken with that, and you can see the underwater video capabilities in the previous post.

Clear blue waters of the Indian Ocean

Fi in her element

  We saw many of the same fish and nudibranchs from yesterdays dives, although the schools were even bigger and denser today. A couple of beautiful angelfish showed up as well as a sleeping green sea turtle who we found hiding out inside a big coral bommie about 60ft down.

Schools of fish for days

Beautiful anthias

Oriental Sweetlips

Indian Ocean Green Sea Turtle

Skunk Anemonefish

Flying Gurnard

Curious Blenny looking out

Lionfish in its natural habitat

Fiona, aka the 'dirt dart'

Relaxing on the safety stop

A well camouflaged Crocodile Fish