It was a beautiful day in mid-November. The water was warm and the current was light. I was on a reef called Dalila and Paul was the last one up as usual. It was the end of the dive and he signaled that it was time to go. While Paul and I were doing a safety stop I looked down and saw a big green moray out swimming around. 

I handed Paul the marker buoy line, grabbed his camera, and dropped back down and took several pictures of the eel swimming around.

The moray was very frisky and it kept swimming right at me.

I wondered more than once if it would bite my fingers off. First it would swim right at me and I really wondered if it would bite me but I just couldn`t put that camera down and flee.

I held steady, pointed straight at its cute little face and pressed the shutter button again and again. She wiggled, turned, and came back at me. I swam around to get a different angle and we circled each other and danced and I took loads of photos.

Green eels are my favorite. They are so graceful and fearless.

They are also ferocious predators and they have individual personalities. This week my divers were charged on 3 different dives by a feisty green eel at Cedral Wall. She never bites anyone but it sure is fun to watch the surprised diver back away. The look on their face is priceless.

There is another sweet green eel at the same site that loves visitors. She is very placid and gentle. After looking at them day after day after day I get to know them on an individual basis and I love each and every one of them with each individual�s quirks.