Good morning friends, I have a juvenile Bluehead Wrasse for you all today that I observed swimming in and out of a cluster of tube sponges.
Young/small females and males have yellow upper bodies and white lower bodies, often with green or black lateral stripes and occasionally dark vertical bars.…
Cassiopea (upside-down jellyfish) is a genus of true jellyfish and the only members of the family Cassiopeia. They are found in warmer coastal regions around the world, including shallow mangrove swamps, mudflats, canals, and turtle grass flats in Florida, and the Caribbean.…
Good morning all, today I have a coral nursery or coral Christmas tree for you that I photographed near the Substation but to the west a little ways. This is a super cool coral restoration project being done by the Curacao Coral Restoration Foundation.…
Good morning friends, I have one of the hands down most colorful sponges I have ever found for you today and it was found attached to mangrove roots in Fuik Bay! Yesterday morning at around 8:30 I joined the scientists from Sirenas on a boat ride to Fuik Bay.…
Good evening all, your photo today is a giant colony of Yellow Pencil corals that just got destroyed by a careless fisherman tossing his anchor overboard onto these fragile corals, what a major disaster!…
Good morning friends, what a busy week!!! Yesterday, I ran into a beautiful blue wall of Blue Tangs and ended up following them until I ran low on air. This is called a Blue Tang Aggregation and it’s one of the greatest underwater shows on the planet. …
Good morning friends, one of the fish I photographed for the Smithsonian Institution is once again in the news. Last year, we took the Chapman (research vessel) to Playa Forti and Playa Jeremi (in Curacao) and some of the top Smithsonian scientists on the planet and this is one of the many things they found way down deep.…
Hi all, I have two juvenile Rainbow Wrasses for you today that I found mid-water caught in a major dispute over territory! These little fish are only around four inches in length and can be very aggressive, when I first saw them they both had their mouths open yelling at each other but as I got closer for a photo I ended up with this.…
I have a beautiful orange Frogfish for you all today that we found at a dive site called “Something Special” in Bonaire a few years back. Bonaire is for sure one of the best places to find the exotic hard to locate sea-creatures like Frogfish and Seahorses although our friends here at the Dive Bus seem to find them all the time in Curacao as well.…
Good morning friends, I have a mega-colorful juvenile Queen Angelfish for you all today that I had a hard time photographing because of how shy they are. This was yet another case of, “if you blink you will miss it”, they know you’re there and they come out of their caves at high speed and race to another cave and if you’re not ready, well you get the picture… MORE…