Monday, March 9, 2015

Turks and Caicos Day 1

Day 1: We got off the plain and jumped straight into the water. After a walk along some very nice beachrock, we swam out to Scott's Reef for our first snorkel of the trip!

We even saw some "sandstone". Just for the clastics guys!


Check out this gorgeous Beachrock, this stuff is cementing in place as we speak!


It even cements up the conch shells!


The reef isn't the best I have seen but there are a lot of different corals!
Some blurry star corals (Siderastrea)

Blurry Gorgonian corals

Finger coral (Porites porites)

Some beautiful reef rubble
A little lone Caryophyllid coral
Diploria labyrinthiformis (Brain coral)
A parrotfish bioeroding
Munch Marks
Montastraea cavernosa

There were also some nice Thalassa grass banks

Halimeda and Penicillus green algae

Manicia areolata (Faviidae)



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