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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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Diving the Mushroom Forest in Curacao
Sponges
Oct 29, 09     Comments Off
Mushroom Forest 1

Mushroom Forest 1

Hello all yes it’s me again!  I get so many letters asking and wondering how in the world do you find time to do your blog thing every day??  Well it’s simple, I get daily doses of encouragement from many of my readers and that’s always enough to keep me going another day!  Like today I wake up turn on the computer and there is a note from a lady I have never met!  Her name is Carol Haralson of Carol Haralson Books, (Google it) well this woman just makes our day every time she writes!!  Her notes are filled with compliments and inspiration and shortly after reading them I feel like Super Photographer and race out into the world to find something to shoot!  It’s really amazing how far a compliment can take you, try it today and see for yourself, words are a powerful thing!  And since I’m on the subject I want to thank all my “Regulars” for always keeping in touch on an almost daily basis, Aimee and I love to get your notes from home! 
 
Here’s a fun shot we took a few weeks ago while Eva was here at one of Curacao’s top dive destination, the Mushroom Forest.  More folks go here than any place on the island and for good reason it has all kinds of beautiful coral and sponge formations!  It gets it’s name from these super big Star Coral mounds that kind of look like giant mushrooms, “with a good imagination that is”!!  This is Aimee hovering above one of the thousands of cool sponge out-crops.  The long purple ropes are called Row Pore Rope Sponge and the sponges in the middle are Branching Vase Sponges, it’s just so beautiful!!
 
We had a fun family outing this morning, Aimee took us to an abandoned land-house she found while out running the dogs on Wednesday.  This place must have been built in the early 1800′s and it still looks pretty good, would love to have a million bucks to fix it up, and it has the best view in all of Curacao!  The rest of the day was a bit on the lazy side, I went to the doctor for my annual check-up and worked on driftwood creations the rest of the day trying to get some more things ready for sale.  Aimee went on a one hour mountain bike ride by herself at 5:30 and I took the dogs for a short walk, that was pretty much our day.
 
Aimee is leaving for an IMATA conference Saturday morning and will be gone for one week.  It will be held in Atlanta this year and is going with two other top trainers from work.  Here’s the IMATA site address for those of you interested, www.imata.org/cms.php?home it stands for International Marine Animal Trainers Association.
 
I’m off to bed, hope you all are doing well, still waiting to hear from some of you e-mail slackers out there!  Till tomorrow, Barry
29-10-2009

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