Here are a few movies we shot with our Digital Camera. In case you are curious about the images we have on these pages, most were taken with our Canon Powershot A85. It is a 4 mp digital camera which just happened to have an underwater case available for it. Most of the movies begin playing as soon as they load, but you may have to press the play button on the triggerfish and needlefish movies.

This is just a shot of a peaceful day in Catalina Harbor. This was around Christmas which is a quiet time in Catalina, but that certainly has its compensations. If you have the volume turned up, you will hear the crickets chirping.

One of the reasons for visiting the Sea of Cortez (better known in Mexico as the Gulf of California) was to see the fish. So here we've fast forwarded to La Ramada, more than halfway up the inland side of Baja. As I assembled these videos, I realized what a wonderful time we had experienced in La Ramada. This is one of few times that I dived with SCUBA gear and was followed around by a very friendly Triggerfish.

These are Needlefish, probably in Sweet Pea Cove on San Marcos. The water was spectacularly clear here.

Mangroves are reputed to be important breeding grounds for many fish. The mangroves in Puerto Escondido were alive with tiny fish.

This is another shot from Trick anchored in the clear waters around San Marcos. This time with a stingray swimming by.

More stingrays. This time in the Costa Baja Marina in La Paz There were loads of them there, maybe something to do with Spring because these dancing rays just seemed too cosy for the norm.

Here are a couple more stingrays, this time at La Mona in Bahia Los Angeles. They seem to be Squabbling over a spot to rest.

More fish from La Ramada. These almost made me jump overboard when they first came around and made that boiling sound in the sea. They are jacks feeding on tiny fish fry which were hiding under Trick.

Here is an underwater picture of the jacks and their prey.

Several varieties of angel fish seem common in the Gulf of California. Most are quite curious and will follow swimmers or kayaks around. The fast moving grey one you may catch a glimpse of in this video belongs to a relatively shy group. They seem to hang around particular rocks, keeping other fish away. I disturbed this one as I tried to film it and the other fish swarmed in, so I'm guessing maybe they were guarding eggs or food. Angel fish

Now I've shown you fish eating one another, I'm not so shy about admitting that we ate the sealife too. Here's a Squid we caught in Marquer on Isla Carmen. We were fascinated at how quickly it changed color.

Here is a short movie I put together showing a cruising friend, Stefan picking chocolate clams out of the sand in Bahia Concepcion. All you see of them is a pair of siphon tubes sticking up through the sand. No, they aren't made of chocolate, just chocolate colored, although they are still quite tasty.

There were swarms of tiny Fiddler Crabs on the beaches in Puerto Don Juan. They are only about an inch across so you have to watch carefully.

This has been the biggest fish we met at close quarters in our trip so far. It is a whale shark which we encountered in Bahia Los Angeles. Occasionally you may see my green fin to give you some idea of the scale. It was about 30 feet long. Well, I guess there's a kayak too!

There has been lots of other wildlife too. Perhaps most exciting was a bobcat we disturbed near bahia Concepcion. Here is a much tamer Songbird. Perhaps not much to look at, but enjoy his song.