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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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Apr 30, 09     Comments Off
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Hello, howdy and how do you do??  Never used that one before!  Today I did something new, I rode my bike to Canoa from my house (that’s around 12 miles) then past the windmills, on the Saint Joris and back home.  It took me two hours, I think it was close to 25 miles but it was a perfect morning for riding, overcast and no traffic.  I have wanted to try this loop for so many years and finally just did it and other than the head wind it was fun!  After cleaning the bike and myself I ran to the store, I found out it was open till noon and stocked up on a few more little things.  At 12:00 sharp I loaded the dogs and off we went to Saint Joris for a three hour hike!  The weather was still overcast and kind of cool so I said what the heck let’s go!  I again carried my tripod and macro lens looking for small little things I thought you might enjoy for your daily picture.  While standing in a few inches of water I shot a hermit crab in a fossil sea shell laying on some sedum along the edge of the cliff.  I had to wait awhile for the hermit crab to come out of his shell, Inca stood next to me and Indi just ran around like a crazy dog!  Well after a little time had passed I thought to myself, where is Indi, I haven’t seen or heard from her in the last five minutes or so and got a bit worried that she was off eating something smelly and dead!  I was still facing the cliff with my camera on the tripod, she wasn’t in front of me, she wasn’t to the left and she wasn’t to the right, now I was worried!  I called and called and finally looked at Inca who was staring at something behind me in the ocean?  I quickly turned around to see Indi “the mountain goat” had somehow swam out and climbed up on this little rock island and claimed it as her own!  I had to laugh it was too funny, I said what are you doing over there and after snapping a picture called her back to shore, this is why we named her Indi short for independent!  The rest of our hike was super fun, I found lots of cool beach treasures and the dogs chewed on just about every flip-flop and buoy they found, another great trip to the bay!
 
We just had a wonderful dinner and I am ready for bed, my legs feel like Jell-O!  Hope all is well, drop us a line we would love to hear from you!  See you tomorrow, Barry
04-30-2009
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