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OLDER POST:Smiley Face in a Orange Elephant Ear SpongeNEWER POST:Ocean Currents, Gorgonion in Current, CuracaoFeb 4, 10 Comments (0)
 Juvenile Highhat Good evening all, just sitting here relaxing after another fun day in the Curacao sun!! Aimee and I went on a dive 1st thing this morning at 8:30, we figured if we didn’t go early it would again be too rough to go later as the stupid wind is still a blowing!! The dive was really fun, we saw all kinds of cool things including a giant lobster and a big green moray eel, I will send those out in a few days. The water temp right now is still very cold, like 78 or 79 degrees, and yes that’s cold for us here in the land of warm Caribbean waters! After the dive Aimee was pulled into a meeting (always on her day off) so I took all the wet gear home and washed it and got it all hung up and then spent the next hour opening the camera and getting it dried as well. While downloading photos I got a call from Mark at the World famous Dive Bus Hut saying he just found a new little fish and was wondering if I had time to come for a look. You don’t have to ask me twice! I arrived at the Pier Baai dive site at around 2:00, set up all my gear again and headed into the water without Mark as he drew me a little map and said if I couldn’t find it that he would be out in about 15 minutes to show me in person. So off I went in search of a one inch fish that I had never seen before and after 15 minutes of looking I still had not found it. Mark was right on time and came to my fish finding rescue and pointed to the sand just feet from where I was looking and there it was!! We think this is a juvenile Highhat. It’s only about the size of a quarter and as you can see has such a cute little baby face still! I laid on the sand just watching this little miracle for at least an hour. As I laid there he or she would swim right up to my camera at full speed and then turn and race back, it really was quite amusing. I also watched as he ate something from the sand over and over, not sure what he was finding but he sure seemed to like it. This is a fish that is very rare in our waters, I am sure there are other areas around the Caribbean or Florida that maybe these are in bigger numbers but for Curacao you just never see them. So thanks a bunch Mark for the hot-tip you guys rock!!
When I got home I quickly rinsed everything and then Aimee and I took the dogs to Saint Joris for a fun hour hike along the water edge. We hunted for driftwood while the dogs ran and ran and ran, a tired dog is a good dog.
That’s about it, off to bed. Till tomorrow, Barry
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