This morning, we woke to another beautiful day at Eustatia Island. The plan is to have breakfast, then do a morning snorkel here, before moving on to a new location. Today’s breakfast was a “lighter” fare – fruit smoothies, yogurt, Julia’s blueberry muffins and, of course, a fruit platter.

There are two unusual fruits in the above picture. They both have the black seed dots – one has pink skin, the other has yellow. Those are dragon fruit. They are found in Central and South America. Julia likes to mix in interesting fruit!

After breakfast, we rested up a bit (you know – from the hard work eating all that good food!), then we went snorkeling. It was just as nice as it was yesterday. One really nice thing about Eustatia is that there are a lot of neat coral formations. With both hard and soft corals, it looks like a garden.

I made a video of our morning snorkel. The coral is just so nice here; it’s a great backdrop to the fish.

And, of course, we have lots of great pictures, too. Here are some of the best…

We saw plenty of juvenile Stoplight Parrotfish.

And more Blue Tangs – this is a great picture…

Schools of yellow French Grunts…

Then we saw some of the more rare fish. This Trumpetfish was in curvy shape for this picture. Usually, they are just straight. Maybe he was eating?

We don’t see many Four-Eyed Butterflyfish, so it’s neat when we do. Usually, they are in pairs, but this one was out on its own.

There are a lot of these Surgeonfish around. They seem to be the most common fish, along with the Blue Tangs.

Here is a Striped Parrotfish. There are so many different types of Parrotfish across the Virgin Islands!

This is a great shot that got the Blue Tang and Seargent Major Fish together. Usually, the Seargent Major Fish are in small groups, so this one on its own is unusual.

I think this is a White Grunt. I don’t recall seeing many of these over our trip. Usually, we see the yellow French Grunts.

A nice picture of a Yellowtail Snapper. We saw quite a few of these fish over this trip.

In this photo, there is a small blue and green Bluehead Wrasse and three of the white fish. I’m not sure what they are. My Google image searches said they were juvenile Parrotfish, but I don’t know if that’s correct. They look white and ghostly against the white sand.

On our swim back the the boat, we have to cross a large sandy area. I happened to notice this Conch shell – and it still had the Conch! It was kind of far down below us, so this is a very cropped photo. But you can still see that there is a Conch coming out of the opening vs just a pink shell opening. How cool – we have never seen this before! I hope no one takes this one to eat him or just have his shell!

After our snorkel, it was time to leave beautiful Eustatia.