Snorkeling in the Japanese Pools

Getting ready to go under

Fish!

This fish was striped with three colors but I couldn't get a very good picture

Another fish and some coral

A lion fish

David and I

A reticulated conch (alive)

A very well camouflaged relative of the seahorse

A small eel is poking his head out

The last time I was on Roi David and I didn't have time to go snorkeling in the Japanese pools so we did it right away this time. The pools are two areas, about forty ft by forty ft by nine ft deep dug out of the coral. Originally they were thought to have been dug by the Japanese (hence the name) but I read recently that the Americans dug them after the war. At low tide, the only time that it's safe to dive in the pools, they are large tidal pools, not connected to the ocean, so the marine life in them is a bit different from that at other coral spots we've snorkeled. I think my favorite was the sea horse-looking thing (sorry, don't know what it's really called). It was so well hidden, in plain site, that I missed it at first.