Today we had our first snorkel!! Our morning snorkel was pretty chill. We swam out to the reef patch and just explored and practiced snorkeling. I saw a lizard fish and parrotfish and LOTS of hard corals! After lunch, we took a boat out to this other reef patch called the aquarium for how big and clear the water is. Here I saw a nurse shark, a yellow sting ray, a sea cucumber, hard corals and so many damsel fish. I also saw a large terminal male stoplight parrotfish, which I followed around for a bit. A lot of fish change gender as they age to balance the population, and when they do they can change their appearance to look completely different. Because of this, there are so many variations of what different fish can look like, so it’s hard to ID them. This parrotfish appeared to be eating the coral or scraping algae off if the coral to eat. Parrotfish are known to have very strange diets. They appear to eat anything from coral to algae to rocks. They frequently poop all of this out which actually create most of the “sand” that we see. In the next few days, I definitely want to follow some more parrotfish around to see them eat and poop. Then we went over to another site, where I saw even more hard corals and fish! I think this location by far had the most hard corals. All the locations seemed to have mustard hill coral, branch fire coral, blade fire coral grooved brain coral, finger coral,  possibly massive starlet coral. The last location also had symmetrical brian coral and smooth star coral, although these are difficult to identify for me, so it’s just my best guess.