Tumon Bay, which was right in front of our hotel, was like a big warm swim through aquarium.  The reef out away from shore prevented waves from coming in which was great for snorkeling.  You had to watch out for the coral and wear protective shoes but the underwater scenery was beautiful and was worth the small risk.  Audrey and I bought masks and snorkels at the local K-mart and I also bought one of those Kodak disposable underwater cameras.  Below are some of the photos I took with it.

We got one of the fishes to take our picture.

This is the very first thing that Audrey saw when she stuck her head under the water!  It is some sort of eel or sea snake.  We followed it around for a while.  It eventually went into a crab hole and became the crab's lunch!

Here is the swim-through aquarium I was talking about.  Swimming around stirred up the bottom and that attracted fish.  This is what I saw when I looked behind me!

Spiny sea urchins lined up like bowling pins.  Don't touch!

These weird tubular looking fish hung around the bottom.  When you got close to them they changed colors almost instantaneously from uniform brown to spotted!

The Lion Fish was one of my favorites. It is just below the center of the photograph.  He has stripes all down his body and many spiny fins surrounding him that look kind of like a lion's mane.

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