I took a ton of photos under water on this vacation.  A ton.  I think if I printed all of them out the weight of the photos may equal a ton.  OK, I’m exaggerating, but there are a lot of these photos.

You go on vacation.  You do vacation things, but then you do some new things.

People always talked about going on these snorkeling trips and I thought “whatever.”  You see some fish or something and big deal.  I mean really.  What’s the big deal of sticking your head in the water to see things??  Now mind you I live next to the Charles River, which no one ever, ever, ever needs to go snorkeling in.

But then you go to this Caribbean and the water is clean and warm and they say you can see things in it.  And they aren’t lying.  The things you see in there boggle the mind.  If you drew feet on the things are about to see, I’m sure you’d have the stars of some new Hollywood blockbuster about crime solving aliens.  Or maybe not.

Anyway, let’s see ourselves some photos.  Believe me, this is but the first round of these.  These will be many, many, many more:

(Now photography wise, I never toot my own proverbial horn, but I wanted to stick a short note in here.  Yes, they do look like photos that were taken in an aquarium but I was under the water taking all of these.  And those are some strange conditions down there.  My camera was jamming all the time, the screen would black out and I couldn’t really see much of anything as I wear glasses in the above water life and my goggles were fogging up down below.)