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Greetings, Aqua-Bloggers!

Roll sound clip from 'The Incredible Mr. Limpet'...

Glub, Glub-Glub, I'm drowning in a sea of love.

Mr. Limpet, alias Don Knotts, is a man that turns into a fish. It's a pretty funny (but odd) movie from the 60's.

Trivia fact - the movie premiere was the first, and perhaps the only movie premiere that was shown UNDERWATER (in Florida, by the way)

It just seems appropriate to use that as the segue to some underwater photos we took at the St. Andrews State Park in Panama City Beach in Florida.

We each carried a 27-shot disposable underwater camera with us.

Some of the shots we missed were above the water. There were lots of yellow-tailed fish (maybe a snapper or a jack) in the water.

Charlie got this photo of them underwater, which was lucky because although they were numerous, they are fast and skittish.

These fish jump out of the water when they're startled, and we startled them quite a few times!

I startled a group of them once, and they started jumping - away from me, but right at Charlie! As a group - they split in half and half jumped next to one side of his head, and the others on the other side - it was the greatest thing to watch!

Charlie just stood there laughing as the fish sailed by. Some things you just have to watch without thinking you have a camera in your hand - (yes, I looked, not snapped) ;-)

There were a lot of aquarium-sized tiny fish around, and Charlie got this great shot of them.

They were found in the shallower water, and liked to feed on whatever was attached to seaweed around the rocks and on the bottom.

They weren't particularly afraid, but would kind of move away from you slowly in a group if you got too close.

(If YOU were food for bigger things, you'd move too).

There were medium sized (around dinner plate sized) striped fish we nicknamed 'zebra fish'.

This is one photo I took of one, there seemed to be a pair of them that 'hung around' the same area all week.

They also didn't seem to care that we were swimming near to them.

We saw this type of fish 2 years ago as well - could they be the same fish? I kind of doubt it.

The largest fish we saw we named 'sea trout', even though they probably have a different name - they were around a foot or more long and travelled in groups.

I hope you can see them through the glare because I was right in the middle of them and there are a lot in this photo.

Now ask yourselves - would you be freaked out with big fish swimming around you, or would you like it? I definitely like it.

Well gang, it's getting late so I'd better post this and write more tomorrow.

Lots of pictures still to come over the next several days - where we stayed, sunsets, and surfer dudes coming up!! TTFN!