Sailing on SV Humpback with the Beck family
We have seen two chain morays. The first, and biggest, was ensconced in a rock, almost completely out of the water. Its head was sticking out of the rock, perhaps searching for passing prey. The second, smaller eel was weaving amongst rubble and rock in about 3 inches of water. The larger was about 2 … Read more
We have found one of these eels, which we believe to be a Key Worm Eel from an internet search- it is one of the only species we have found that doesn’t appear to be in our identification guides. The eel was swimming in the shallows on the shore of creature beach’; the tide had … Read more
Dave spotted this eel swimming along the surface around the boat hulls. It was a deep, shiny black, with a fan-like tail and two fore fins behind the head. It spent a couple of hours circling one hull but it may have been there longer before we noticed it that morning. After an internet search, … Read more