April 17, 2012
Our afternoon dive today was more surreal than most. We were on the far side of Bajo Nuevo’s lagoon and instead of a large, defined reef mound, we were wandering through what looked like a field of monuments. They were coral pillars, some two or three meters high.
Coral pillar at Bajo Nuevo
April 15, 2012
Suffice it to say there will be no more photos of a mirror-like sea surface anytime soon. This morning we fought high winds and 1.5-meter swells in the channel that runs between Bajo Nuevo’s two main reefs, but still managed to get in one regular and two conch survey dives. There was a nearly 2-meter nurse shark waiting for us as soon as we hit the bottom. And, as expected, we found a place very different from Alice Shoal.
A peacock flounder
April 14, 2012
We made it to Bajo Nuevo this afternoon after a final productive day diving Alice Shoal. Though we didn’t find as much coral at Alice as we might have expected, there is positive news to report here, and chief scientist Andy Bruckner solved one last Alice riddle just before we left.
We didn't see many grouper at Alice Shoal but did find one lonely goliath grouper
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