I have written before about Gab Gab, a reef inside the harbor on the Navy Base. This is juts some pictures from one of my snorkels there, so you can see what it is like.
There are anemones, turtles, schools of fish, and all about a million awesome corals. It’s a beautiful place.
This is a masked puffer. There are a lot of types of puffer fish here, but I don’t see them as much except in June and July (which seems to be when they are getting friendly with each other.)
The masked puffer is in front of some beautiful hard corals.
These are soft corals growing on hard corals. The ocean is (for the moment) full of species competing for space.
I like how the soft corals seem to pop up and grow on things like mushrooms.
There are several sea turtles that are usually seen around Gab Gab. I have looked online a lot, and it seems to me that they are Green Sea Turtles.
Several military spouses and insisted rather vehemently that they are hawksbill turtles. However, I don’t think that is the case.
Above, you can see a cleaner wrasse eating parasites off two larger fish. One is a standard Parrot Fish, and one is a Rainbow Parrot fish.
Parrot fish have these tiny, silly-looking fins. I have no idea how they move to fast.
At fist I thought these might be cuddle fish. However, upon more searching online, it looks as though they are reef squid.
I had never seen them at Gab Gab before August of 2017, but it seems that there is an explosion of squid and other invertebrates going on. I am glad, because I love the way they change color.
Anyway, this is what it looks like swimming along the reef at Gab Gab.
It’s a really amazing experience to swim through these underwater gardens. I am grateful that I got to see them.
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