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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanAug 15, 09 Comments Off
 Cactus Flowers Good evening friends, I was just reminded again that I never sent out a photo of the little flowers that grow out of these red spined barrel cactus we have here. I thought I sent you a picture, I’m sorry but I can’t remember? The hot pink flowers are very small as you can see and the thing in Aimee’s hand is a fruit of some kind that pops out of the top as well! It’s fairly common to see one or two flowers and this fruit pod. We never found more than four flowers on any given cactus and it seems they only bloom in the late afternoon, I never saw a flower in the mornings? This photo was taken a few months back the cactus now are very ugly looking and have lost their color maybe because of the lack of rain? So anyways those are the flowers that are associated with the cactus not the most photogenic flower out there.
It was another hot, windy, busy day at the Curacao Sea Aquarium. I noticed again today that the ocean current was really going out there and was glad I wasn’t diving would have been impossible to swim in. I just got home from a super fast 15 mile bike ride with a friend, we did two big race loops in an hour and a half, I am beat! Tomorrow I have to go to Pen Straat and do a dive for this resort that has again hired me to map their reef. They have 2 or 3 Elkhorn coral pieces that are stopping the building of this project. So we are going to mark them, photograph them and somehow find a way to either work around them or move them to a new area. I am hoping the ocean is calm enough to dive, I guess we will see in the morning!
I am off to bed, see you tomorrow, Barry
15-8-2009
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