I have a Curacao favorite for you all today called a Honeycomb Cowfish (Acanthostracion polygonius).This unusual reef fish has an armor of heavy hexagonal scales covering much of its body and an elongated caudal peduncle (tail stem) with rounded fins.…
Good morning friends, I have a super cute, two inch long juvenile Rock Beauty for you all today that I found under the pier at Caracas Baai and YES fish can be cute!! Over the years, this little fish has been very elusive and we have only seen these babies a handful of times.…
Hey gang, here’s a monster Green Moray Eel that our friend Emma found yesterday on the “Superior Producer”, a giant cargo ship that sunk in the 1970’s near the famous Mega Pier in around 120 feet of water and is now one of the top dive spots on the island.…
Today I have a beautiful (if you think eels are beautiful) Goldentail eel peeking out from his or her super-cool brain coral fortress. This is how we find or see eels throughout the day, they just watch the world go by from the safety of their little caves, breathing with their mouths open.…
Hello friends, I have a fun Caribbean reef scene for you all today with a Golden Crinoid being the main subject. I rarely see these prehistoric looking creatures any more and if I do they are usually the all black ones, these orange ones are super hard to find.…
Good morning friends, I have a super colorful little sea bass for you all today called a Bicolored Coney, or Cephalopholis fulva for you masters of fish out there. The coney (Cephalopholis fulva) is a relatively small grouper species which occurs in three main color forms: a red or dark brown form, commonly found in deep water; an orange-brown or bicolored form, orangey-brown above and pale below, which usually occurs in shallow water; and a yellow (‘xanthic’) form, found in both deep and shallow water.…
Good morning all, what a week!! I have been so busy this week that I wasn’t able to go biking at all but tomorrow morning I will be making up for lost time in the saddle and picking up a friend at 7:30.…
Good morning all, I have a fun Lionfish portrait for you all today that I shot with my trusty 105 macro. We still see these beautiful invasive fish on every dive but on some reefs they are really doing a good job at keeping the numbers down.…
I have a little, very delicate Rose Lace coral for you all today that I shot in the mouth of a little cave on our Substation house reef. This hydrocoral forms small colonies, up to 7 cm high by 11 cm wide.…
Good morning friends, today we have two sub dives, the first starting at 9:00. I’m going to have my young intern shoot a go-pro movie of me photographing the sub today and I will try and post that as soon as I can.…