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Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last seven years documenting life above and below water in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Focusing on the island's coral reefs, he has worked hand-in-hand with several businesses and environmental groups, including SECORE, a marine conservation organization based in the Netherlands. His image of a research submersible was recently featured on the cover of DIVER magazine.

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Jul 4, 10     Comments Off

Common Octopus

Hi again everyone!  A BIG late Happy Fourth of July to all my friends and readers in the States, I almost forgot!  Yes living here with an all new set of Holidays it’s easy to forget our own.  We usually have a fireworks display here at Breezes Hotel for all the Americans but it hasn’t started yet, when it does Inca will be going crazy! 
 
I had a very calm and relaxing day for once!  I first took the 4 dogs out for a two hour walk doing some macro flower photography along the way.  I found a new area full of those tiny “starfish looking’ flowers and spent at least an hour trying to get a nice shot which I finally did accomplish!  While shooting the two pups raced back and forth and dug holes in the dirt they had an absolute blast and upon my return home they crashed and slept the rest of the day, how cool is that!  I watched movies while working on new photos in Photoshop and also cleaned up my computer room which looked like a tornado went thru.  That’s about it for my day.
 
This is a beautiful Common Octopus all rolled up trying to blend in with the reef.  When these octopus are out in the open and want to hide they either lay flat and change to dark colors or make them selves look like a coral head, it’s really pretty cool!  Octopus are considered to be the most intelligent of all invertebrates, the common octopus “seen here” is found in the tropical and temperate waters of the world’s oceans.  They can grow to about 4.3 feet (1.3 meters) in length and weigh up to 22 pounds (10 kilograms), although averages are much smaller.  They prey on crabs, crayfish, and mollusks, and will sometimes use their ink to disorient their victims before attacking.
 
Hope everyone is doing well, have a safe evening, Barry
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