Chasing Vagabonds under a Rainbow

For a second afternoon in a row, Miguel’s Diving took guests to the City Limits dive site, only a five-minute boat ride. Today after looking at the tanker wreck, we were doing a long safety stop along the diverse coral wall. Our dive master located yet another colony of Pinkeye gobies (Bryaniops natans). Most amusing were two pairs of Vagabond butterflyfish (Chaetodon vagabundus) playing tag. A pair would slowly chase each other in a tight circle, then one would dash away with its partner in hot pursuit. Then they would resume their circle dance. Both pairs endlessly repeated this same behavior. With safety stop completed, we broke the surface of the calm ocean to see the entire arc of a rainbow.