Reef: Day 3

Lots of little fish

Me with some scissor-tailed sergeants

Me with some more scissor-tailed sergeants

Question: which way was this picture taken?
Answer: exactly the way you see it.  It was very fun to swim straight down

Can you see the parrofish?

Today was our last day snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef, but it was probably the most exiting.  We, snorkeled at three sites that we had already been to, but that didn't take away from the experience.  The highlight of the day was getting to see another obscure animal called a royal sea squirt!  Just like the giant clams, these are filter feeders with an "in" opening and an "out" opening and are hermaphrodites, meaning they can reproduce by themselves.  Royal sea squirts are about the size, if not smaller, than a fist, and can filter hundreds of liters of water a day, removing most (95%) of all bacteria!  Although the camera was working better today, we couldn't get a picture if the sea squirt, so you will need to look it up on google images.  However, we were able to get some great photos of me surrounded with small, black and white fish called scissor-tail sergeants.g