San Salvador Island, Bahamas
1980, 1982, 1983, ca 1987 and 1990
by Don Chesnut ©2005
The following are descriptions and links to photographs. Or you may just want to view the photographs in the thumbnail directory (no maps or
descriptions).
Getting there
- Harry Kreuger's Beechcraft, we flew from
Lexington to Ft. Lauderdale
- same view, cold, rainy, windy weather
- same view
- inside Harry's plane
- same, I'm holding the camera to take our picture
- getting on a Red Airlines Beechcraft at Fort
Lauderville to fly to San Salvador Island, Bahamas
- getting on the plane
- boarding the DC-3 in Ft. Lauderdale to fly to
San Salvador Island
- DC-3
- same view
- getting on one of Red's Airlines' planes in Ft.
Lauderdale
- same view
- onboard one of Red's smaller planes
- view of Ft. Lauderdale airport after takeoff
- beach at Ft. Lauderdale, heading east
- over the Florida Straits
- looking down through shallow water at underwater
carbonate sand dunes, Bahamas Platform
- underwater (subaqueous) tidal or storm channels
cutting through a subaqueous carbonate sand bar, Bahamas Platform
- subaqueous channels and extensive deposit of
carbonate sand, all under water
- tidal channel cutting across carbonate sand
shoals, darker patches are islands (i.e. subaerial)
- tidal channel and tidal channel mouthbar
adjacent to low island, Bahamas Platform
- reefs and patch reefs and surrounding light
carbonate sand, all subaqueous
- island and tidal channel, through the clouds
- island at left, shallow sea with carbonate sand,
Bahamas Platform
- carbonate sand shoals, subaqueous
- underwater, parallel dunes, carbonate sand,
Bahamas Platform
- subaqueous dunes and Thalassia grass
flats
- white sand shoals of the Bahamas Platform
- just above cloud layer
- approaching San Salvador Island
- Riding Rock Point and Bonefish Bay
- lakes in northern part of island, Northwest Arm
Lake, Flamingo Lake and Little Lake, plane over Cockburn Town
- Little Lake and Great Lake (northern part of
Great Lake is also known as Long Lake)
- same lakes, another image
- Long Lake
- same lake
- triangular land separates Little Lake (in
background) from Long Lake, looking towards Cockburn Town
- looking south, Six Pack Pond on extreme left,
northern and southern part of Great Lake in middle
Research Station
Transportation
Grahams Harbour and North Point
- walking from Research Station to initial
snorkeling site at Grahams Harbour
- abandoned building near first dive
- same building
- group picture at empty building near Grahams
Harbour, Frank Ettensohn on right
- another group picture, Harry Kreuger is on right
- same group
- gearing up for first snorkeling stop; many have
never snorkeled
- first snorkel experience at Grahams Harbour
- in the water, same place
- Beth Ettensohn and Beth's mother, same place
- diving spot, Graham Harbour?
- Anne, same place
- Anne, same view
- Anne, same view
- rock exposure on North Point and Grahams Harbour
- same place, small cave
- trail on North Point, note lack of trees, only
scrub, Ann Shreiber
- top of North Point
- North Point, Rice Bay on the right
- Grahams Harbour side (leeward side) of North
Point, looking north, note smaller waves
- Cut Cay and artificial cut across North Point
- old shipwreck at North Point and Rice Bay
- another view of shipwreck
- shipwreck at North Point
- shipwreck at North Point
- shipwreck at North Point
- shipwreck at North Point
- shipwreck at North Point
- shipwreck at North Point
- shipwreck at North Point, Gene Parker
captain
- shipwreck at North Point
- shipwreck at North Point
- beach at Graham Harbour, across from CCFL
research station, unknown person
- same view, very peaceful water, we did a night
dive here one night (no photos though)
Cockburn Town (pronounced Coeburn Town)
Inland lakes near Cockburn Town
Cockburn Town Fossil Reef
- Cockburn Town dock?
- view from Cockburn Town
- same view
- rough surf at Cockburn Town fossil reef, north
of dock
- rough surf, same place
- same place
- same place, looking opposite direction, south
- Martina and sponge "feather" in her cap
- Cockburn Town fossil reef??
- Frank Ettensohn at Cockburn Town boat ramp
- Frank telling us what we're going to do
- Cockburn Town fossil reef
- walking through brush to get to fossil reef
- Joe at edge of outcrop
- Harry negotiation narrow part of path
- crab (dead) and fossil coral, same place, staged
- Ann Shreiber at fossil reef
- same view
- outcrop of Cockburn Town fossil reef
- same outcrop
- same place
- Joe found something, same place
- same view
- fossil reef outcrop
- Joan Esterle and Peter Warwick, same place
- Effie Grossnickel, same place
- Cockburn Town fossil reef, better weather
- my son Donald at fossil reef
- on the fossil reef
- Donald, same reef
- fossil reef outcrop
- Dan Phelps and fossil reef
- Ophiomorpha burrow by callianassid shrimp
in reef limestone, same place
Fernandez Bay
Grotto Beach
Watling Castle Quarry
Roadcut near Grotto Beach
French Bay
- very sharp, treacherous limestone, corroded,
French Bay?
- sharp limestone with hammer for scale
- chiton on wall of tidal pool-pothole
- rough surf and limestone, French Bay?
- same place
- rough surf, same place
- rough surf
- looking down at rough surf, hand to protect
camera from salt spray
- sea cliff and rough surf
- surf area, note the color bands above the surf
- rough surf and sea cliff
- crabs fighting, really staged fight with dead
crabs
- looking over bay, Gene Parker, French Bay?
- Ann Schreiber (now Childress)
- resting after tiring dive in rough surf
- resting, same place
- resting, same place, Clark
Pigeon Creek Lake
- Pigeon Creek Lake?, shallow lake and mangrove
flats
- same view
- wading across the salty muck, Pigeon Creek
lake/tidal flat
- same place, abundant mangroves
- wading through mangrove, need to rescan
- wading Pigeon Creek lake
- mangroves at Pigeon Creek lake, Ann Schreiber
- Frank and Alma walking through the muck and
mangroves, same place
- wading through the muck, Pigeon Creek lake
- same place
- same place
- student and Ann Schreiber's mom, same place
- Ann Schreiber at Granny Lake?
- geologist, I don't remember, same place
- geologist, I don't remember, same place
- group picture, Granny Lake?
- group picture, need to rescan
- group picture
- modern Strombus gigas midden
- walking back through the mangroves
- same place
- peat sample collected by Joan Esterle
- Pigeon Creek tidal flat?, low tide
Pigeon Creek tidal channel
- Pigeon Creek tidal channel?
- same tidal channel
- Pigeon Creek tidal channel
- dock at Pigeon Creek tidal channel
- time for sun screen, getting ready to snorkel
through the tidal channel at Pigeon Creek
- putting on sun screen for next dive, Pigeon
Creek area?
- Pigeon Creek tidal channel?
- Sergeant major, Abudefduf saxatilis,
Pigeon Creek tidal channel
- mangrove roots, Pigeon Creek tidal channel
- strong tidal current, turbid water, ebb
flow, Pigeon Creek tidal channel
- difficult to keep in one position with
strong tidal current, Pigeon Creek tidal channel
- Codakia bivalve pavement at bottom of
scoured trough in tidal channel, note that all valves are convex upward,
Pigeon Creek tidal channel
- Halimeda-grained sand along tidal
channel, Pigeon Creek tidal channel
- Halimeda, Udotea, Penicillus and
Thalassia grass, Pigeon Creek tidal channel
- note bent Thalassia grass, strong
tidal current, Pigeon Creek tidal channel
- carbonate sand encroaching upon Thalassia
grass, near Pigeon Creek tidal delta
- school of tiny fish over grass flat, near Pigeon
Creek tidal delta
- Goniolithon coralline algae and
Thalassia grass, near Pigeon Creek tidal delta
Pigeon Creek quarry
Storr's Lake
- Conrad Newman, Storr's Lake, smells like
sewage
- Conrad Newman, Storr's Lake
- Conrad groping for thrombolite
- Conrad Newman with cyanobacterial thrombolite,
Storr's Lake
- Conrad going underwater to get another thrombolite,
lake smells like sewage or hydrogen sulfide
- wet Conrad with thrombolite
- wet Conrad with thrombolite, I retrieved one
also, it is at KGS
- thrombolite
- Conrad with thrombolite
- Donald with thrombolite
- Ann Watson with thrombolite
- unusual bedding, don't remember where
- unusual bedding, don't remember where
- upwelling water in tidal flat, dewatering
structure or spring?
Dixon Hill Lighthouse
Lighthouse Cave
- Lighthouse cave, my cousin Joe and some of the
geology students
- Lighthouse cave, my cousin Joe and some of the
geology students
- Ann, Peter and Clark in the cave
- our group in the cave for a group picture
- group picture
- group picture
- group picture
- another group picture
- Frank, our leader, Harry (Joe's father-in-law),
Ann Schreiber's mother and Clark
- Clark, Lighthouse cave
- group picture in the cave
- group picture, cave
- Joe (my cousin), in Lighthouse cave
- Patrick and Joe in the cave
- group picture in the cave
- group picture in the cave, dark
- Patrick? in cave
- Patrick, cave
- our group in Lighthouse cave
- our group in the cave
- our group, Lighthouse cave
Boy Scouts
People, etc.
Underwater pictures
- you never can tell what you'll see underwater, Alma
Hale
- two geologists disturbing the Thalassia
grass flat
- I have no idea, but it's Joan Esterle and Peter
Warwick
- Joe diving down
- my son Donald, Fernandez Bay?
- Donald
- Donald
- Donald, underwater
- Ann Schreiber Childress
- diver, clear water
- diving group, unidentified
- unusually murky water, can't tell who diver is
- algae, grass, etc
- abundant algae, anemones, and sponges, Grahams
Harbour
- small coral head (in back) and abundant algae
and sponges, Grahams Harbour
- abundant small coral heads and a dark sponge,
Grahams Harbour
- corals and algae, Grahams Harbour, near the
Coast Guard dock
- red coralline algae, a Diadema sea urchin
and an anemone, Grahams Harbour
- variety of algae
- variety of algae
- algae and small knobs of coral
- Goniolithon coralline algae and
Thalassia grass
- Goniolithon and a small coral head
- very shallow water, same place, Acetabularia?
- algae, may be Acetabularia
- variety of algae including Penicillus and
Udotea
- Halimeda, Penicillus and other algae
- Halimeda and Penicillus algae
- Penicillus and Udotea algae
- Udotea algae
- Halimeda, Udotea, Penicillus and
Thalassia grass, Pigeon Creek tidal channel
- whelk? egg cases in Manatee grass,
Syringodium filiforme
- Thalassia grass flat
- Thalassia grass flat, dark photo, turbid
- Thalassia grass flat against rock with
soft corals, probably Grahams Harbour
- Thalassia grass flat against rock with
soft corals, probably Grahams Harbour
- sponges (Porifera)
- corals, hydrozoans, gorgonians, etc. (Cnidaria)
- Millepora, fire coral or stinging
coral
- Millepora
- Millepora squarosa? on the left and some
kind of brain coral on the right, can't see enough detail
- Millepora?
- Millepora, dark photo
- Millepora and coral, dark photo
- Millepora
- Millepora and algae
- sea fan, Gorgonia ventalina
- sea fan, Gorgonia ventalina, probably
Grahams Harbour
- sea fans and a parrotfish, Scarus sp.
- sea fans and a parrotfish, Scarus sp.
- sea fans and a little blue fish
- sea fans and small coral heads, probably Grahams
Harbour
- sea fan and turbid water
- Sea Fans
- soft coral, unidentified
- variety of soft corals and a fish
- variety of soft coral
- variety of soft corals, Grahams Harbour
- soft coral
- soft coral
- Pseudopterogorgia gorgonian with pink Flamingo Tongue snail,
Cyphoma gibbosum
- Staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis
- Elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, these
grow in the heavy surf part of the reef, probably French Bay
- Elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata
- Elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, and
Stoplight Parrotfish, Sparisoma viride
- Elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata
- Brain coral head
- overgrown or weathered coral
- Alma Hale with coral
- variety of coral, algae and a parrotfish
- small corals (yellow)
- small coral knobs and algae
- variety of small coral heads
- sea anemones and a small shrimp with the
same markings as a Nassau grouper
- sea anemone
- worms, etc. ("Vermes")
- molluscs
- sea urchins, starfish, etc. (Echinodermata)
- lobsters, crabs, shrimp, etc (Arthropoda)
- Slipper Lobster, Scyllarides aequinoctialis,
aka Spanish Lobster
- Spiny Lobster, Panulirus argus, with
several immature Bluehead Wrasse, Thalassoma bifasciatum
- very large Hermit Crab (terrestrial), could be
Petrochirus diogenes, in very large West Indian Turban shell,
path to Lighthouse cave
- Fish (Pisces)
- Southern Stingray, Dasyatis americana
- Southern Stingray, Dasyatis americana
- Southern Stingray, Dasyatis americana
- Yellow Stingray, Urolophus jamaicensis,
Pigeon Creek tidal channel
- Yellow Stingray, Urolophus jamaicensis,
Pigeon Creek tidal channel
- Yellow Stingray, Urolophus jamaicensis
- Great Barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda, in
turbid water
- pair of Great Barracudas, Sphyraena
barracuda
- Great Barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda
- pair of Trumpetfish, Aulostomus maculatus,
dock at Grahams Harbour
- Sand Tilefish, Malacanthus plumieri
- Squirrelfish of some type
- Squirrelfish? under rock overhang
- small Squirrelfish, Holocentrus,
over anemone
- another Squirrelfish, Holocentrus
- Longspine Squirrelfish, Holocentrus rufus
- Longspine Squirrelfish, Holocentrus rufus
- Longspine Squirrelfish, Holocentrus rufus
- Longspine Squirrelfish, Holocentrus rufus
- hard-to-see squirrelfish
- Nassau Grouper, Epinephelus striatus
- Nassau Grouper, Epinephelus striatus
- Nassau Grouper, Epinephelus striatus
- Nassau Grouper, Epinephelus striatus
- Nassau Grouper, Epinephelus striatus
- Tiger Grouper, Mycteroperca tigris
- Tiger Grouper, Mycteroperca tigris
- Tiger grouper, Mycteroperca tigris
- Yellowfin Grouper, Mycteroperca venenosa
- school of Bar Jacks, Caranx ruber
- Bar Jacks, Caranx ruber
- Bar Jacks, Caranx ruber
- Bar Jacks, Caranx ruber
- Bar Jack, Caranx ruber
- Bar Jack, Caranx ruber
- Bar Jack, Caranx ruber
- Bar Jack, Caranx ruber
- Bar Jack, Caranx ruber
- Schoolmaster snapper, Lutjanus apodus
- Schoolmaster snapper, Lutjanus apodus
- Schoolmaster snapper, Lutjanus apodus
- Schoolmaster snapper, Lutjanus apodus
- Schoolmaster snapper, Lutjanus apodus
- bunch of little grunts? and a sea fan
- school of grunt, perhaps Sailors Choice,
Haemulon carbonarium
- Porkfish, Anisotremus virginicus, and
soft corals
- Yellow Goatfish?, Mulloidichthys martinicus
- Yellow Goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus
- Yellow Goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus
- Yellow Goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus
- Yellow Goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus
- Yellow Goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus
- Yellow Goatfish?, Mulloidichthys martinicus
- Flying Gurnard, Dactylopterus volitans,
looks like a giant grasshopper sitting on the bottom, fairly deep water
- two Bermuda Chubs?, Kyphosus sectatrix
- Bermuda Chub, Kyphosus sectatrix
- two Bermuda Chub, Kyphosus sectatrix
- Bermuda Chubs, Kyphosus sectatrix
- pair of Bermuda Chub, Kyphosus sectatrix
- Peacock Flounder, Bothus lunatus,
well camouflaged, you can see the two eyes sticking up
- Foureye Butterflyfish, Chaetodon capistratus
- Foureye Butterflyfish, Chaetodon capistratus
and coral knob
- Banded Butterflyfish, Chaetodon striatus,
Grahams Harbour
- Queen Angelfish, Holacanthus ciliaris,
and Blue Tang, Acanthurus coeruleus (lower fish)
- Queen Angelfish, Holacanthus ciliaris
(middle fish), and two Doctorfish, Acanthurus chirurgus
- Queen Angelfish, Holacanthus ciliaris
- Rock Beauty, Holacanthus tricolor,
intermediate stage
- Rock Beauty, Holacanthus tricolor,
intermediate stage
- Rock Beauty, Holacanthus tricolor, adult
stage
- Rock Beauty, Holacanthus tricolor
- French Anglefish, Pomacanthus paru,
intermediate stage
- French Angelfish, Pomacanthus paru,
juvenile
- French Angelfish, Pomacanthus paru,
juvenile
- Sergeant major, Abudefduf saxatilis
- Sergeant major, Abudefduf saxatilis and
soft corals
- Sergeant major, Abudefduf saxatilis
- Sergeant major, Abudefduf saxatilis,
Pigeon Creek tidal channel
- Blueheaded Wrasse, Thalassoma bifasciatum,
against rock
- Blueheaded Wrasse, Thalassoma bifasciatum,
adult stage and sea fan
- Blueheaded Wrasse, Thalassoma bifasciatum,
adult stage
- Blueheaded Wrasse, Thalassoma bifasciatum,
adult stage
- Blueheaded Wrasse, Thalassoma bifasciatum
- immature wrasses?
- Spanish Hogfish, Bodianus rufus, nearly
adult
- Spanish hogfish?, Bodianus rufus,
juvenile (under algae)
- Stoplight parrotfish, Sparisoma viride,
and sea fans
- Stoplight parrotfish, Sparisoma viride,
red phase
- Blue Parrotfish, Scarus sp.
- Blue Parrotfish, Scarus sp. and sea fan
- Parrotfish and soft coral
- Stoplight parrotfish, Sparisoma viride,
red phase (lower fish) and Queen Parrotfish, Scarus vetula, drab phase
(upper fish)
- Queen Parrotfish, Scarus vetula, drab
phase
- Rainbow Parrotfish?, Scarus guacamaia,
drab phase
- two Black Durgons, Melichthys niger
- two Black Durgons, Melichthys niger
- Ocean Triggerfish?, Canthidermis sufflamen
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula
- Ocean Triggerfish?, Canthidermis sufflamen,
could be bad view of Queen Triggerfish
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula, in
Thalassia grass flat
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula and
soft coral
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula
- Queen Triggerfish, Balistes vetula
- Blue Tang, Acanthus coeruleus, adult
stage
- Blue Tang, Acanthus coeruleus, and some
other fish I can't make out
- Blue Tang, Acanthus coeruleus, between
coral heads
- Blue Tangs, Acanthus coeruleus, adult
phase
- Blue Tang, Acanthus coeruleus,
intermediate stage, and lots of algae
- Doctorfish, Acanthurus chirurgus, a
kind of surgeonfish
- Doctorfish, Acanthurus chirurgus
- Doctorfish, Acanthurus chirurgus
- Doctorfish, Acanthurus chirurgus
- Doctorfish, Acanthurus chirurgus
- Doctorfish, Acanthurus chirurgus
- Ocean Surgeon, Acanthurus bahianus, or
could be a Doctorfish, A. chirurgus
- pair of Smooth Trunkfish, Lactophrys
triqueter
- pair of Smooth Trunkfish, Lactophrys
triqueter, one is at bottom left
- Smooth Trunkfish, Lactophrys triqueter
- Smooth Trunkfish, Lactophrys triqueter
- Smooth Trunkfish, Lactophrys triqueter
with an L. trigonus pattern
- Smooth Trunkfish, Lactophrys triqueter
- large fish, can't tell which, maybe a grouper
- small hole with tiny fish
- unidentified fish
- small fish, coral and algae
- two conchs with fish living in them
- small yellow fish
- tiny blue fish and some kind of coral
- coral and fish
- fish, can't see enough to identify it
- variety of fish, Blue Tang and others
- deeper water, some kind of triggerfish or
surgeonfish?
- unknown fish, maybe a grouper, can't tell
- some kind of fish
- unidentified fish, one may be a parrotfish
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