Good morning everybody,
What a surpise seeing all the cams are fixed now. I have been away the whole week end ( Jean Paul's 30th year university class in Angers city ).
I like the new views especially the reef cam.
I am opening a new thread to have your opinion regarding the reef cam critters galery...
is served, have a nice day.

Good morning to all that arrive here,

Thanks for the coffee, Martine The new views are very addictive!! I'm so glad that they have been saved!

A new day has started

Good Morning Martine and Diana and to all coming here later.

Joel has a busy day at work ahead so he has to leave early... So I will see you for sunsets!

First visitors. I think the are black jacks hunting.

Ooops ! Morning Eileen :o)

Hi Eileen! And bye again
They like the cam and want to pose:

Good Morning Everyone



What an amazing and wonderful sight the cams are. First time for me to see the reefcam

Kev and I have our new house now Stayed there most of weekend but I'm back home now and catching up on emails and boards. We are not moving in till middle July. I have now sold my house [if all goes well] and that will go through end of July/beginning of August. Nearly through this whole exhausting process.

John, I went to Manchester on Friday and got myself a Starbucks coffee, and thought of you. I had a Grande, Cafe Latte with Caramel shot. Divine

hello pussy cat

Hi everyone. I think I found a princess. Is it a princess? Jenni. So glad that things are turning out well for you. By jove, you have waited long enough for this. Annie B.

Ha ha Jenni. You just beat me to the pussy. LOL. Annie B.

Birdies at Bongo's

Nice line-up:


Great Jenni! After moving and settling in, you can forget about the bad experiences with selling houses and stuff!

Well, she/he knows now where to find the cam:

GMTA, Annie

Setting out the sunbeds for the day. Save one for me please. Annie B.

From the archives:

Diana. Who's that fishy. It looks strange on my monitor. I am supposed to be doing my housework. LOL. Annie B.

The 7:54 looks more like a hand-puppet, in stead of a fish!

LOL, Annie, I should be doing some work.... but got distracted

Good morning all.

I have Starbucks Gazebo Coffee , bold taste this morning for all. (They gave me a sample last night.) Have a cup!

Jenni, Good going on the houses. That is so tough to do. (We are in our 5th house and have sold four of ours and my parents house.)

I love the new cam. Do you notice how the location of bait fish change. It is lets us know the direction of the current. The fish are very interesting. One question, at this depth have we lost the color red from the fish we see?

Bon Dia all. John, that's amazing you should ask that question. I was thinking the same thing and searched the archivies to see if we have any reds. Sorry to say they are all but gone as are the yellows and most of the green. I also went back and checked the discussion about the future reef cam location. No mention of the loss of colors although Jake apologized for his photo of the spot for that reason.

Interesting no one thought of it, the camera does work on reflected light and there is nothing but blue light at that depth. The best best on tweaking the capture would be to convert them to black and white and go from there.

None of this is a complaint and I love the new location and would not change with the old.

We did see the yellow on the rock beauty, and that showed up pretty well. Annie B.

Burying the cable.

Good morning everyone. Kelly said I needed to come check out the new cams. I love them! The beach cam makes me feel like I am there. Thanks for the heads up Kelly. I like seeing the different fish too. Have a great Monday everyone.

You're right Annie but he was pretty close to the cam, there was also a little yellow in the goatfish. Any distance from the camera and there's only blue left. Look at the diver yesterday with a flag, something we know is bright red, almost none got to the cam.

Yeagh. I know what you're saying Cecil. I love the new cam anyway, and seeing the new fishes. Is the goatfish the one with the yellow on it's mouth. I have to learn to id the fishes from scratch again. Annie B.

just got a little break from clients. one cancelled so I ran out and got the last minute things for my hols/exam in Rumania. I go Wednesday!

I love the new cams too I still can't get over having laid on those beds etc.

Yeh, you're right Annie. A few months down the line and we will have forgotten all about this house experience. Well I sure hope so!!!!!

Noticed the conduit had resurfaced last night. Glad to see the workers out taking care of that. Wish I could remember their names. There was one fellow from the Dominican Republic, another from Venezuala and the third from Mozambique. None of them spoke English, but for the most part we managed to communicate. When we got confused, we'd get a translation

Wow. Sergeant major. Annie B.

Great pic Annie B!

Thanks Lisa. T break here. LOL Annie B.

Well, that's what you call a close-up, Annie

A belly from the archives

LOL Diana. Each time I come back to the 'puter, it seems there is always something to snap up. Annie B.

Who's this looking in on us.

Whoops, I got chucked off, but now someone else is looking at us. Annie B.

And another one is trying to figure out what the cam is.

GMTA, Annie. I thought already that this would made a double...

This must be the goatfish Cecil was talking about. We all missed it on the actual day. Annie B.

(Message edited by Annette on July 5, 2004)

Whoops, now we didn't Cynde captured it. My computer is playing up and it opened the wrong thread. That's my excuse anyway. I think I am going mad. LOL. Annie B.

one from earlier.

OH, no, Annie, don't go Mad!!
I was also searching for the goatfish, because I knew it was posted!

Diana. Something is really wrong here. It made me double post myself, LOL, and now it's telling me my user name and password is not valid. I think I will reboot. Waaaagh!!! Annie B.

missed this one earlier.

Annette, The 11:04 image looks like a Spotted Trunkfish.

And the goatfish has two barbels under the tip of chin. I don't think that is a goatfish.

Good morning everyone! Look at all the fish!

They look like confetti!

Time to leave work and go home.
Don't know if I can make it to the cams this evening, if not: have a great day all.

And sleep well for later

John. Thanks for the id on the Trunkfish, and I wonder what the other one is then. Some serious searching to be done I think. Annie B.

Hi Barbara. Nice capture.

Cecil, I was thinking about the colors yesterday too..guess we'll only get a little up close...too bad but we do have new fish to compensate!

At first I thought the 6:50 shot had a grumpy grouper on the lower left. This new depth and cast of fish is confusing my widdle mind.

Hmmm - Mr. Yellow Lips? Does this help at all:

At first I thought the 6:50 shot had a grumpy grouper on the lower left. This new depth and cast of fish is confusing my widdle mind.

Hmmm - Mr. Yellow Lips? Does this help at all:

Hi Annie! Nice capture on that trunk fish...I gotta look up that other creature in my new Caribbean fish book!
Another close up

Still looks like a parrot to me. Squawk!

Love the trunkfish. I must have dozed off here and missed it. WOW! The new reef cam is really super - lots of action.

Is this like old times, or what? Meryl and Cindy Reed popping in just in time for the new cams? It's instinct!

Hi Babs! You got the Human(n) Guide? Worth every penny - sitting right here in my lap.

So that's a creolefish? Wonder if it makes good GUMBO?

Interesting...

I think Mr. Yellow lips is a Spanish Hog fish...looks like the one in my reef fish book...here's Picasso..not quite as close up
Same face....

I wonder if we'll see Satchmo? I'll miss him the most, I think. He had a sense of humor. I thought it was cool when he'd hitch a ride with a parrotfish.

Hiya Rusty.....yup, I think that is a creole fish in the 12:10...same pose opposite direction than the book! What a poser! LOL

Mr Yellow Lips; my guess is a Spanish Hog Fish with those markings and big mouth. I wish we could see the body, that would be proof.

This little guy is quite curious!

I take that back, now I think some kind of grouper. The mouth just looks to grouper like and not hogfish like.

There was a trumpet fish hanging around the wreck on Saturday morning, so there's certainly a chance of it visiting the cam.

A school of goatfish seem to have a rock they like to congregate on, just below the cam.

I can highly recommend the diving at Eden Beach for the number and variety of fish. The wrecks certainly attract fish, as does the area directly under the pier.

Cecil, For Mr yellow lips, how about a porgy, such as a Pluma or maybe some type of snapper.

Looks like some divers about to enter the water....CArole

Well so far, the only fish that I have found with yellow lips is a unicolour grouper. Can't see a pine under the chin though. Annie B.

http://www.hawaiifishingnews.com/records_d.cfm?ID=488

Diver

My present guess is a Yellowmouth Grouper.

Okay, comparison shots
Spanish hogfish from Aquaworld images
and recolorized one from Eden beach

I still think it's a Sp Hog... Stubborn, huh?

divers going in now....


wonder if we'll see them on the reefcam

Geeez...

Hogfish lips are too pointy, methinks. He appears to have open spots on the body?! The scales look big, too. Wrasse?

Time for a new thread, provided by Miss Annie herself! Go to Absolutely fabulous, Part II