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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanMay 28, 10 Comments Off
Hello one and all. Here’s one of the most beautiful crabs in the Caribbean. I did a dive at around 1:30 with my friend Maikel and while shooting the same two mating trunkfish that I found a few days ago he got my attention and pointed out this little red jewel to me. The carapace on these crabs are smooth and heavy, with no teeth, except for a blunt one at the lower right- and left hand corner. The ground color is pale to brick red with scarlet spots and meandering lines of small white or yellow spots. The ends of the fingers and claws are darker. This is the largest crab in the Caribbean, the carapace can be up to 15 cm in width although I have never seen one that big here. It’s actually pretty unusual to find one of these during the day as they are known to be mainly nocturnal animals. The diving was a bit strange today because of bizarre weather on the topside. We had zero wind, the current and waves have changed directions and the ocean is dead calm which usually means there is a big storm sucking everything out of the atmosphere! The water was filled with plankton today because of the zero water movement and at times looked like it was snowing. I really didn’t find a whole lot to shoot today, I was shocked at finding the same two courting trunkfish still going at it and in the same exact spot as last time, I mean how weird is that??
I keep forgetting to mention this but if for some reason you don’t hear from us for a few days it’s because our old Dell bit the dust or that we are having power outages in Curacao. Please remember that no matter what happens you can still view the daily blog at www.coralreefphotos.com make a note of it, you never know.
We still have one puppy (our little male) that needs a home, so please if you can help us we really could use it, time is running out! Lot’s to do this evening, sorry so short talk to you tomorrow, Barry
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