by Barry Brown | Jul 8, 2016 | Fish, Reef, Science
Good morning friends, what a busy week!!! We have Fabien Cousteau here and the group from Sirenas collecting sponges for medical research meaning yours truly has not been able to find time to post! I will post a Fabien blog with photos either tomorrow or monday so hang in there, you know I’m good for it… So yesterday when I was returning from 100 feet after photographing Fabien and Paige from Sirenas in the submersible 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. We see these large groups called aggregations on the reef here every single day and I still never seem to get tired of it, they are just so beautiful. Adult blue tangs have three social modes: territorial, wandering, and schooling. by Barry Brown | Jun 18, 2016 | Contest, Fish, Invertebrates, Reef, Science
Hi all, lots going on these days leaving me with very little time to blog. On Saturaday we had the CIE students from Bonaire again and kept busy with them till 2:00, so much for getting anything else done that day!! Then yesterday was the oposite and it turned out to be a contest seeing just how much a human can do in one day… I first did a three hour mtb ride with my neighbor, then went to the beach, then to the hardware store and bought some lumber and spent hours finishing up the boxing or crating of Aimee’s wooden horse, it’s done! I then went to wish Mark from the World famous Dive Bus Hut a Happy Birthday, stopped and watered the birds in the desert and then picked up Aimee and the dogs for a long afternoon walk carying more water out to the desert to water our poor dry baby agave’s, after that I was cooked! 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 closser for a photo I ended up with this by Barry Brown | Jun 14, 2016 | Contest, Corals, Reef, Science
ABOUT Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last 12 years documenting life above and below water in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. He is currently working with the Smithsonian Institution documenting new Caribbean deep-water species and building a one of a kind database. His underwater images can regularly be seen in Sport Diver, Scuba Diver and on the Ikelite website. His image of a "Collage of Corals" seen under blue-light at night recently placed in the TOP 10 images for the 2014 NANPA (North American Nature Photographers Association) photo contest. by Barry Brown | Jun 12, 2016 | Fish, Reef, Science
Good morning friends, I placed second again this weekend in the annual Sorsaka MTB race, sponsored by Bsure Insurance group. This is by the far one of the hardest races of the year, it’s about 25 miles which is three full loops around the Jan Thiel salt pond and this time they designed the route so you have to climb just about every hill out there! For once I had a great start and managed to hold my own and may have won if not for a stupid flat tire but these are the spoils of racing! I also had my GoPro on for most of the race mounted to the back of my seat post but other than the start the rest of the video is boring, you would never know there are 65 riders chasing me, it’s just 60 minutes of looking at my rear tire and watching the trails fly by! by Barry Brown | Jun 6, 2016 | Fish, Reef, Science
Good morning friends, guess what?? It rained! It wasn’t a lot but it was our first good shower in ages! At 5:00 I heard rain hitting the window and jumped out of bed and raced to the front door to make sure I wasn’t dreaming, it was great! Aimee and I then sprinted upstairs and sat on the porch listening to this long overdue H2O wonder, it had been at least 5 months since this last happened! Yesterday we were just saying how bad all our little agave plants need water but it’s so hard to get water out to them, this just saved us a week of doing that task alone!
