Soft corals sway with the current, while schools of striped and spotted groupers, angelfish, batfish and lionfish dart between them. |
Grand sea fans enliven a reef inhabited by leaf fish, lionfish, and a polychromatic array of nudibranchs. |
A night dive on the house reef revealed spiny lobsters and red crabs, morays, scorpionfish and lionfish. |
I was bored with photographing co-operative green turtles, so I turned to barracuda, batfish, groupers and a lone zebra lionfish. |
The red lionfish is native to Indian and Pacific nations but has started to appear in various areas stretching from Cuba to North Carolina. |
Sadly, there are too many lionfish about, and the bounties have proved too expensive to sustain. |