Floating In Clouds Of Gold

How do I describe the water here and the life underneath it? Perhaps if you're used to the tropics and the Caribbean this would be "old hat", but some how I don't think so. I find myself relaxing deeply on each dive, and even on a relatively small aluminum 80 I'm getting 50 minute dives, ended by the instructor's insistent call that it is time to go up. The life is amazing, and I keep wishing that I had a more powerful strobe to capture images in better color.

Then, finally, I stop thinking technicalities, air consumption, and even picture taking. My breathing slows and I just float. I slowly come up to coral mounds in the middle of sand flats... essentially islands of life in the sand. Most of them are surrounded by fish, some of them in the hundreds. Small glass fish school in shimmering curtains. Different types of anthias school in clouds of gold and crimson, and as I control my breathing I drift into the middle of them, floating in clouds of gold.