A Bucking Parrot Fish

MEN ARE SO TERRITORAL! lol actually I mean to say males are territorial. Yesterday I went to the beach on Managaha and I can say when I returned to the main island I was tanned and relaxed. The majority of the time spent was napping and enjoying the beauty of the island. Towards the end of the day I decided I should at least spend some time in the water the wind had died down and I was getting hot.  Sera and I decided we would go snorkeling. I had a lot of fun but I felt nervous cause it was really shallow and I really didn’t want my chest scraping coral. So we decided to just hop from sand patch to sand patch to it got deeper. This made me laugh because I felt like some big bumbabling giant who couldn’t walk properly cause I was tripping over the coral and trying so hard not to break the tiny homes but failed miserably. Finally we settle down and I begin to snorkel. It was amazing! There is so much beauty under the sea. I saw so many shades of fish and all sorts of sizes. One fish I really liked looking at was a black and white fish but it wasn’t stripped it was spotted and it had an orange strip that went all the way around the edge. I saw big blue starfish and pretty orange coral.

So I’m enjoying  my underwater adventure when I swim into a certain males territory. The male Parrot Fish. This fish is a little bit bigger than the other fish but still considerably small. He has the most beautiful colors painting his sides but an man did he have and attitude. The min I get into his “space” This tiny fish starts bucking at me. AT ME! It swims side to side and then swims straight at my face and then at the last min backs off. Swims side to side then bucks bucks. Honestly he pushed me back at first. Then I start to crack up laughing and I continue to have this face off with the fish. Sera swims up next to me and puts her hand to scare him but this little bugga attacks her fingers so she screams and pulls her hand back. This has me dying. So we decide to leave the fish along and swim away.  We come to another part of the beach and guess who we meet, another bucking parrot fish. This time his attention is solely directed on Sera. He is going crazy I swear it was a sight.  So she has her stare off but then she threatens him saying she will make him lunch when she stands up and then she screams. The fish this time didn’t just buck it hit her leg. If I was on land I probably would have dropped to ground laughing. Sera is like fine and we swim out but as I was watching underwater the fish swam right next to her bucking and he whole length until we was away from his territory. You ask me, that’s a pretty ballsy fish they gave me a good laugh that day. But hey it shouldn’t have been surprising; I’ve been living with territorial men my whole life. It’s just the male way of life.