Today was a diving day. A fantastic diving day, I might add. We did two reefs that were new to me and that is saying something given the frequency that I dive here. The first place we went was just amazing. It was teeming with coral and marine life. We were the only divers on the reef which was awesome. The dive master (who also happens to be my significant other) killed several lion fish. These fish are quite pretty, but they are not indigenous to this area and as such have no natural predators. The are ravenous eaters and the females have 30,000 babies a week! Since most of where we dive is a marine park, the dive masters are trying to control the invasion which is why they are allowed to kill them. The lion fish have really long spines that they sting the living shit out of you with so you have to be very careful when messing with them.
So we got several huge lion fish about the size of small chickens. We came upon a nice size nurse shark laying under an overhang and decided to give it a snack. It gobbled down two fish! Now the thing is, these fish are delicious to eat. You cut off the spines and the meat is just out of this world. I am NOT a big fish/seafood eater. If it tastes or smells 'fishy' I want nothing to do with it. But lion fish is light and delicious. It reminds me of crappie. I must admit I was a little sad thinking about giving my lunch to the shark but it all turned out ok. On our second dive of the morning we bagged 5 of them that were just as big. We brought those buggers home and fried them right up and ate them with tortillas and refried beans (don't tell me you didn't see that coming).
Now I am nice anf full and ready to take my afternoon siesta in our most comfortable hammock. Life is good!!!
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