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Archive for the ‘Sharks + Rays’Dec 23, 09 Comments (0)
 Southern Stingrays Good evening friends, boy did we ever have a busy day at Dolphin Academy!! Today was as busy as it gets, we were pretty much fully booked on all swims and encounters all day. The hardest part of the day was dealing with the gale force winds and monster waves that rolled in every second of the day, it made taking pictures very entertaining! I always get a big kick out of watching our guests jump into the lagoons for a dolphin swim with the waves crashing over the rocks, the rocks stop the waves but it’s still pretty rough in there, they were real troopers today!!
Here’s some more Stingrays for you all this evening, something I get a lot of requests for but never seem to take the time to shoot. There are four Southern Stingrays in this photo. One is at the bottom of the photo buried under the sand, the other three are swimming around. Remember a few weeks back I sent you a photo of just the eye of a stingray? Well the one buried in the sand was my model, he figured he was well enough hidden that I couldn’t see him, boy was he wrong! These big rays love to cover themselves in sand and sometimes the only thing showing is their eyes, its really cool. This was shot inside our one and only Animal Encounters at the Curacao Sea Aquarium, you can also see the big antique ships anchor laying in the sand in the background and we also have old canons as well.
Aimee and I are both off tomorrow but I have to work Christmas and the day after, yes it kind of stinks but they give us extra pay for working holidays. That’s it for my day, I hear South Dakota is bracing itself for a big winter storm, send us photos!! Be back tomorrow, Barry
Dec 12, 09 Comments (0)
 Stingray Eye Good evening friends, you probably noticed right off that tonight there is a different copyright stamp on the photo and the reason for that is my “Photoshop Batch” program is for some strange reason not working?? I shot this yesterday for you all, this is a close-up view of the eye of a big Southern Stingray. I found this guy buried in the sand with only his eyes poking out at the one and only “Animal Encounters” located at the Curacao Sea Aquarium. This ray was probably six feet long with his tail and to my surprise let me get very close for this shot, usually they swim away. I think he thought he was well hidden under all that sand and that no one could see him, little does he know the outline of his body stood out like a sore thumb!!
As of this morning our car is down again!! Aimee came home from walking the dogs at 7:00 and said, “I think the clutch just went out” and boy was she ever right. With the help of our friend Michelle we were able to get it a to a nearby garage but it will have to just sit there until Monday morning as everything is closed on the weekends here! I tell you, broken camera, broken computer, now the car, geez where will it end, this is killing us!! Our car has been great but I think it’s starting to go down hill fast, the motor is still nice but everything else is falling victim to our fast paced Caribbean lifestyle and the good o’l salt air! Tonight we had to ride our bikes to the store to get some groceries and not sure yet how I am going to get the dogs to the trail tomorrow.
Hope everyone is getting the most out of your weekend, you’ve waited all week for these two days so live it up!! I smell dinner, talk to you soon, Barry
Oct 28, 09 Comments (0)
 Caribbean Stingray Good evening from the ABC islands!! Over the past year many have requested a Stingray photo and by golly I found a few this week in my old stock of photos. This is the Southern Stingray or also called the Caribbean Stingray and is the most common ray found in the Caribbean. These were shot right in our own backyard at the Curacao Sea Aquarium in Animal Encounters. Here you can pay to swim with the rays and other fish in a giant lagoon and feed them at the same time, it’s quite the adventure just ask our guests who have done it, right Nancy!! I can still remember the look on our friend Bernard’s face when he went in with me for the first time. Once they found out he had food it was every ray for himself and seconds later he was completely covered in rays, one was even resting on his head! We do see these out diving on the reef but I think mostly they are laying in sand somewhere completely covered and we probably swim right over them.
Aimee was off all day, I worked and it was busy again, it sure makes the day go by fast. We are doing a little family adventure tomorrow morning to a new place that Aimee found today, I’ll send a photo. I’m out, have a great evening, Barry
28-10-2009
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